The Men behind the ultimate

"unworkable solution"

(How a man can cause the potential extinction of all life on Earth with nothing more than an ill-conceived idea, a letter, a check, a piece of chalk and uniform)

 

Al Einstien and Szilard

Composing a letter to request funding from President Roosevelt for the first atomic bomb

The fateful letter from Einstien to Roosevelt

 

President Roosevelt

aka "FDR" or "Frankie, The Limper"

He wrote a $3 Billion check to buy the Bomb

 

Enrico Fermi - Scientist behind the Bomb

 

Oppenheimer

"visionary" behind the Bomb

 

 

The "Enola Gay" Bomber Crew dropped it