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1974
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NOVA
The Genius Behind the Bomb 19 Season 11 Episode
55 min
1974
7.1
Physicists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard reenact the signing of the 1939 letter that alerted President Franklin Roosevelt to the feasibility of atomic weapons. Szilard drafted and Einstein signed the famous warning, which led to the building of the first atomic bomb.
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