Leo Szilard was someone who would consider the long-term implications of science and would analyse the links between scientific discoveries and world events. Eventually, the nuclear chain reaction was ...

Also on hand is Physics World’s Matin Durrani, who chats about the remarkable life of the Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard – who encouraged the US to develop nuclear weapons during the Second ...

The Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs turns 30 on July 7. Leo Szilard, the physicist who since 1945 had been proposing just such a meeting of Russian and Western scientists to discuss ...

Edwin Lyman is the director of Nuclear Power Safety with the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Climate and Energy program. He is a co-author (with David Lochbaum and Susan Q. Stranahan) of the book ...

Leo Szilard, pictured circa 1945, circulated a petition to other Manhattan Project scientists, asking President Truman to reconsider using the atomic bomb on Japan.

Einstein and Szilard's refrigerator concept never became a commercial product. The introduction of the non-toxic refrigerant, Freon, in 1930 proved more economical. Drawing from Einstein's and ...

A mushroom cloud towers over Nagasaki after the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1945. Albert Einstein struggled with his role in the creation of the bomb and the devastation wrought by the U.S ...