Thursday, August 12, 2010

Power Trio

FDR? Albert Einstein? A Bomb?

Summer of '39. Nassau Point, Peconic, Long Island, NY. Got that?

Albert Einstein writes a letter to Franklin Delano Roosevelt detailing developments in the study of Uranium that the good scientist believes the Prez should be aware of ASAP. Especially since the bloody Germans were apparently hot on the trail of the ability "to set up nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which bast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated."

The letter is actually a pretty interesting read. Check it out here.

It's a shame nobody writes like that anymore.

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