In the summer of 1939 Albert Einstein was on holiday in a small resort town on the tip of Long Island. His peaceful summer, however, was about to be shattered by a visit from an old friend and colleague from his years in Berlin. The visitor was the physicist Leo Szilard. He had come to tell Einstein that he feared the Nazis could soon be in possession of a terrible new weapon and that something had to be done. Einstein was faced with a dilemma; assist the Allies in acquiring the ability to build atomic weapons or allow the real possibility of Hitler of acquiring the bomb?
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