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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences at Penn State, has been selected as the 2022 recipient of the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society. The award ...

To Whom It May Concern: Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records: All FBI files relating to Hungarian-American scientist Leo Szilard (1898-1964), especially ...

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 ...