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Invention of Atomic Bomb

Name: Invention of Atomic Bomb – United States factsheet records
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United States · Warfare / Nuclear. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1939Date range

1Named people

0Places

Chronological records

1939

Franklin Delano RooseveltAugust 1939

Warfare / Nuclear

Einstein writes a letter to Roosevelt to develop the atomic bomb

Names involved

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Provenance

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