2 ago 1939 ano - Beginning of the atomic bomb construction

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Albert Einstein signs a letter that Leó Szilárd sends to the president of the United States of America, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, claiming his attention about the investigations carried out by the scientists Enrico Fermi and Leó Szilárd, that stated that the uranium could be converted into a new powerful source. As part of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, he made the intriguing point that a large amount of energy could be released from a small amount of matter. This was expressed by the equation E=mc2 (energy = mass times the speed of light squared), which is the principle of the atomic bomb. Beginning of the atomic bomb construction.

Image: Letter of Albert Einstein to Roosevelt in which he talks about the importance of the uranium

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