Einstein
IMMIGRANTS from Germany helped make the A-Bomb.
We did not want Germany, Japan, Italy, or the USSR to know we were working on it.
Germany and United States where working to make them work. United States got it first and used first on Japan over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Probably the most central was Leo Szilard. He drafted a letter that was signed by Einstein warning Roosevelt of the possibility that the Germans were working on atomic weapons, which was directly responsible for the US Manhattan Project.
Scientist knew that the atomic could be split. The only thing that Einstein wrote the President was that Germany had a number of scientists working on an atomic bomb.
Einstein signed the letter, but Leo Szilard wrote it.
IMMIGRANTS from Germany helped make the A-Bomb.
Germany had already surrendered by that time.
The US did not drop atomic bombs on Germany although the original purpose of the Manhattan Project was to develop a bomb before the Germans did. However, as the war went on Germany had to redirect recourses to other areas so they never succeeded in developing an atomic bomb. Once Germany surrendered, and the atomic bomb was successfully tested in New Mexico, the possibility existed of using it against Japan. And that is what happened
We did not want Germany, Japan, Italy, or the USSR to know we were working on it.
Mainly because there was concern that the Germans were already working on developing one.
No. By the time the US dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, Germany had already surrendered. While Germany did have a nuclear weapons program during the war, it did not actually get to the point that they were capable of building a working bomb.
Germany never had an atomic bomb.
Germany and United States where working to make them work. United States got it first and used first on Japan over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Wanted to developer the atomic bomb before Germans
Probably the most central was Leo Szilard. He drafted a letter that was signed by Einstein warning Roosevelt of the possibility that the Germans were working on atomic weapons, which was directly responsible for the US Manhattan Project.
Scientist knew that the atomic could be split. The only thing that Einstein wrote the President was that Germany had a number of scientists working on an atomic bomb.