Richard’s Reviews > Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses and Historians. > Status Update

"In the last four months it has been made probable (...) that it may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium by which vast amounts and large quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated. (...) This phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed." Einstein letter to F.D. Roosevelt Aug 2 1939