Leo Szilard was waiting to cross the road near Russell Square in London when the idea came to him. It was 12 September 1933. A little under 12 years later, the US dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima ...

Atomic scientists after speaking before congress at an informal session in Washington D. C., on Nov. 8, 1945 are left to right, Dr. H.C. Urey, Dr. Leo Szilard, Dr. L.B.

The complicated relationship between physicist Leo Szilard, scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves. Assigned to oversee the project, Groves chooses Oppenheimer to build the ...