<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2303749/open_sms">Send us a text</a>On a sunny afternoon in 1939, the physicists Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner visited Albert Einstein at his beach cottage on Long Island. They wanted him to write to President Franklin Roosevelt about the need to develop the atom bomb before the Nazis could.

Send us a text On a sunny afternoon in 1939, the physicists Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner visited Albert Einstein at his beach cottage on Long Island. They wanted him to write to President Franklin Roosevelt about the need to develop the atom bomb before the Nazis could.

<a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2303749/open_sms" rel="noopener noreferrer">Send us a text</a>On a sunny afternoon in 1939, the physicists Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner visited Albert Einstein at his beach cottage on Long Island. They wanted him to write to President Franklin Roosevelt about the need to develop the atom bomb before the Nazis could.

Einstein's Cottage, Where the Atom Bomb Was Born

Award-winning history writer John Strausbaugh tells fascinating stories about the past, bringing fresh perspectives to events and characters great and small.

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Award-winning history writer John Strausbaugh tells fascinating stories about the past, bringing fresh perspectives to events and characters great and small.

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Einstein's Cottage, Where the Atom Bomb Was Born

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