Throughout “Einstein’s Letter” Leo Szilard, a hungarian physicist, and Albert Einstein worked together to construct a letter to the United States and to the Belgian ambassador, warning them about an uranium based bomb. Szilard had spent most of 1933 experimenting with how uranium and nuclear fission worked. Hearing talk of Hitler building an uranium based bomb frightened Szilard. He turned to his former colleague, Albert Einstein, to stress the importance of Hitler building an atomic bomb. With Einstein being a Jew and on the “Nazi Hit List”, he agreed to help Szilard compose a letter to the President of the United States and to the Belgian ambassador. This first letter Szilard and Einstein wrote was to the Belgian ambassador. With Belgium
