The Genius Behind the Bomb Nova : Season 19 Episode 11
TV-PG PBS 1h 00m
Aired: September 29th, 1992 @ 9:00 PM EST on PBS
Physicists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard reenact the signing of the 1939 letter that alerted President Franklin Roosevelt to the feasibility of atomic weapons. Szilard drafted and Einstein signed the famous warning, which led to the building of the first atomic bomb.
