the physicist Leo Szilard. Szilard was an important member of the Manhattan Project but, almost alone, came to regret what came out of it. Lynskey writes, “Of all the men responsible for ...

Physicist Leo Szilard (1898-1964) was a Hungarian Jew who fled Nazi persecution and emigrated to the United States, where he became close friends with Albert Einstein (1879-1955). In 1939 ...

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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 ...