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1. Why did physicist Leo Szilard ask Albert Einstein to help him

correspond with U.S. President Roosevelt (what was he afraid of)

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Hungarian refugees Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, and Edward Teller persuaded Einstein to warn President Franklin D. Roosevelt about the possibility that Germany could develop an atomic bomb, and to urge FDR to consider a similar program in the United States. Old Grove Rd. Washington, D.C.

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