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• n  United States physicist and molecular biologist who helped develop the first atom bomb and later opposed the use of all nuclear weapons (1898-1964)

• Szilard
• Leo Szilard

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• How Albert Einstein Helped Blackmail President Roosevelt Over Manhattan Project Funding
  Seventy-five years ago, Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard wrote a letter to United States President Franklin Roosevelt expressing concern that German scientists would soon unlock the secrets to developing the first atomic bomb. The Einstein-Szilard letter resulted in the establishment of the Manhattan Project, and the United States' subsequent creation of the world's first nuclear weapon ...
  May 1, 2014 - SPACE.com via Yahoo! News