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WWII (Immigration (Szilard (Thought heavily on what to do about the…
WWII
Immigration
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Szilard
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Thought heavily on what to do about the research that was being produced. Saw the implications that could arise with this technology
Leo Szilard was born in Budapest, Hungary. He had an interest in physics but was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army. He didn’t have to serve due to a medical discharge. He then moved to Berlin and enrolled in the Institute of Technology. He studied physics under Max von Laue and became close friends with Albert Einstein. Szilard then moved to England once Hitler rose to power in Germany. While in England he first entertained the idea of a nuclear chain reaction. He moved to the United States in 1940 and worked at Columbia University. He became increasingly worried about the possibility of a nuclear weapon, so he led efforts to completely stop publications of nuclear data. He contacted his friend Albert Einstein to help him draft a letter warning the allied powers about this technology. Einstein delivered it to Alexander Sachs who discussed it with Franklin Roosevelt. Over the course of the Manhattan Project he drafted many petitions that he had his fellow colleagues sign to limit the use of the atomic bomb. Those petitions didn’t reach the president before he died. Once Truman took office, Szilard tried again to petition not to drop the bomb on Hiroshima. This petition also was blocked and never made it to the president. Hence the atomic bombs were dropped. Szilard did help defeat a bill in the legislature that would delegate atomic energy ownership to the military. Most scientists at Los Alamos and Metlab opposed this bill.
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Edward Teller
Edward Teller was born in Budapest on January 15 1908. His family was a rich Jewish-Hungarian family. He went to school and got a chemical engineering degree from the Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany. He then received his Ph. D. from the University of Leipzig in Particle Chemistry. He moved to Copenhagen and worked under Bohr. In 1935 he moved to America and became a professor at George Washington University. He then worked under Oppenheimer with the Manhattan Project. Teller had many ideas on new and bigger bombs. He wanted to try to create a fusion bomb made from Hydrogen. This bomb wasn’t given clout at the time and the project was tabled. His calculations proved that a nuclear bomb would destroy a limited area and not create an uncontrollable chain reaction. After the war he went back to the concept of nuclear fusion. The project wasn’t revived until 1950 when Russia detonated their own nuclear fission weapon. Harry Truman then ordered the fusion project to be investigated. He worked on the project and then worked as a research fellow at Stanford University.
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Race for the Bomb
Germany
Pitfalls
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Aryan v Jewish Physics
Many Jewish Physicists contributed to the progress in Quantum Mechanics. Anti-semitic viewpoints wouldn't allow Quantum Mechanics to be validated.
All able bodied men, (including the scientists) were conscripted into the military
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Russia
Espionage
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Knew that new technology was being developed due to the fact that physicists weren't sharing information anymore
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