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'It was the one great mistake in my life': The letter from Einstein that ushered in the age of the atomic bomb
On 2 August , Albert Einstein wrote to the US President Franklin D Roosevelt.
His letter would result in the Manhattan Project, and one of history's most significant – and destructive – inventions.
The dramatic account of the lethal harnessing of atomic power told in the blockbuster film Oppenheimer might have been nothing more than science fiction had a two-page letter, dated 2 August , never been written.
"Recent work in nuclear physics made it probable that uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy," reads a typed letter to US President Franklin D Roosevelt signed by hand by the esteemed physicist Albert Einstein.
This energy, he continues, could be used "for the construction of extremely powerful bombs".
Expressing suspicion at Germany's decision to halt uranium sales in occupie