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Thirty-four years after scribbling E = mc2, Albert Einstein wrote to President Franklin Roosevelt to warn him the Nazis were turning his famous theory into a nuclear weapon. How did Einstein know this, and did Roosevelt actually read his letter?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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