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Creation of the Manhattan Project

In August, 1939, Albert Einstein sent a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt warning that Nazi Germany was attempting to build a new weapon which was more powerful and more destructive than any weapon ever known to mankind.

That weapon was the Atomic Bomb. This letter would eventually change the course of history and would alter the face of the modern world.

Einstein’s letter and other correspondence about the A-Bomb and the Manhattan Project were locked up in Franklin Roosevelt’s White House Safe in Top Secret files on Roosevelt advisor, Alexander Sachs and on Manhattan Project Director, Vannevar Bush.

The Sachs and Bush links will lead you to digital images and text versions of the actual A-Bomb documents found in Franklin Roosevelt’s Safe. These documents have been declassified by the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Security Council and are held today by the FDR Library.

Source: archives.gov

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