Leo Szilard Essay

The world was on the verge of another world war with the axis powers on one side against the allied powers on the other side. and it all started with a scientist named Leo Szilard, who had the idea that splitting atoms would generate a huge amount of energy, he defected from Germany when Germany under Hitler started to persecute against their scientists. his idea of creating energy from splitting atoms couldn't be proven that it worked because he was splitting the wrong atoms but when he saw a paper splitting uranium atoms to create intense light and energy he was convinced that idea would work. and co-incidentally Hitler stopped the exportation of uranium core from Czechoslovakia Szilard was determined that, that Hitler was planning to use the uranium to build a bomb so in order to stop this he requested the help of the greatest scientist in the world at the time Albert Einstein. …show more content…
so thus he created a letter to warn the Belgian queen about this theory relating to this powerful weapon and Hitler. but after writing the letter Szilard meet with Alexander Sachs the unofficial advisor to President FDR and after hearing Szilard he told Szilard that "if he wrote the president a letter that i would personally hand deliver it to the president" so Szilard wrote another letter getting Einstein to sign it and then he sent it off with Sachs.the president got the letter a few months after it was originally send. and when the president read this letter he authorized the Manhattan project for the sole purpose of creating this bomb so that the Nazis would not get their hands on this powerful weapon first.and even though Einstein and Szilard were the ones to recommend this program to the president both of them did not work on this project because FBI director considered them to be