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Einstein–Szilárd letter (was: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner)

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je suis charly wrote:

> [corrections I made ca. 12 hours earlier in 
> <news:1854950.h90O4IymGf@PointedEars.de>]
> 
> The Einstein–Szilárd letter didn't urge the building of bomb. It stated 
> the possibility that something might be done with the newly discoverred
> fission in Germany, and Germany seemed suddenly interested in Uranium. It
> suggested the US government decide what to do with the research being done
> in the US.

If you read <http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/psf/box5/a64a02.html>, what 
do you think Szilárd was referring to with the “experimental work” for which 
uranium should be ”secured”, when he wrote about the prospect of building a 
bomb just one page before that?

Certainly Alexander Sachs who delivered the letter to Roosevelt, understood 
it *also* to be an endorsement to build an atomic bomb:

<http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/psf/box5/a64b01.html>

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Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-02 10:06 -0700
  Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2016-06-02 10:35 -0700
    Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2016-06-02 20:43 +0200
  Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-02 10:48 -0700
    Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2016-06-02 12:23 -0700
  Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-02 13:50 -0700
    Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Hägar <hsahm@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-04 13:23 -0700
      Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-07 21:05 +0200
        Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner lal_truckee <lal_truckee@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-07 12:46 -0700
          Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-07 22:14 +0200
        Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-08 01:28 -0700
          Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner je suis charly <charlie-gordon1492@no.where> - 2016-06-08 01:46 -0700
            Einstein–Szilárd letter (was: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-08 21:09 +0200
              Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-08 12:46 -0700
          Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-08 09:25 -0700
            Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-08 10:19 -0700
  Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-02 23:16 -0700
  Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-04 05:50 -0700
    Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-04 10:49 -0700
    Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2016-06-04 10:58 -0700
      Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2016-06-04 14:31 -0500
        Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-04 13:14 -0700
          Re: Einstein's Relativity as a Money-Spinner JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2016-06-04 13:58 -0700

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