Leo Szilard (1898–1964) occupies a singular place in the history of science and international security. Known for his foundational work in nuclear physics and his pivotal role in launching the ...

UC San Diego’s Geisel Library has received a grant of nearly $100,000 to digitize the papers and materials of Leo Szilard, the late physicist whose work on nuclear chain reactions helped lead to the ...

Bulletin online columnist Pavel Podvig, member of the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board and research associate at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, received ...

What is it about Jews and bombs? Jewish physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer may have invented the atomic bomb, but the technology wouldn’t have existed without Leo Szilard. Leo Szilard, a Jewish physicist ...

Of the two men who worked most closely on the nuclear chain reactions that made the atomic bomb possible, one, Enrico Fermi, died of cancer. In 1959 the other, Leo Szilard, went to his doctors with a ...

I am writing to you to introduce Dr. L[eo]. Szilard who proposes to submit to you certain considerations and recommendations. Unusual circumstances, which I shall describe further below, induce me to ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Steven Prohira, who is co-leader of the Radar Echo Telescope collaboration, which aims to detect high energy cosmic neutrinos by sending radar ...

“Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?” — Leo ...

These informal discussions, in which a man would listen and then respond with a frown or a smile without having to say anything, were—to me—more revealing than the public sessions. The Pugwash meeting ...

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 ...