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. Leo Szilard to Einstein, July 19, 1933, AEA 76-532.

7

. Some popular accounts suggest that Einstein merely signed a letter that Szilard wrote and brought with him. Along these lines, Teller told the writer Ronald W. Clark in 1969 that Einstein had signed, with “very little comment,” a letter that Szilard and Teller had brought that day. See Clark, 673. This is contradicted, however, by Szilard’s own detailed description of that day and the notes of the conversation made by Teller that day. The notes and new draft letter in German as dictated by Einstein are in the Teller archives and reprinted in Nathan and Norden, 293. It is true that the letter dictated by Einstein

was based on a draft Szilard brought that day, but that was a translation of the one Einstein had dictated two weeks earlier. Some accounts, including occasional comments made later by Einstein himself, try to minimize his role and say he simply signed a letter that someone else wrote. In fact, even though Szilard prompted and propelled the discussions, Einstein was fully involved in writing the letter that he alone signed.

8

. Einstein to Franklin Roosevelt, Aug. 2, 1939. The longer version is in the Franklin Roosevelt archives in Hyde Park, New York (with a copy in AEA 33-143), the shorter one in the Szilard archives at the University of California, San Diego.

9

. Clark, 676; Einstein to Leo Szilard, Aug. 2, 1939, AEA 39-465; Leo Szilard to Einstein, Aug. 9, 1939, AEA 39- 467; Leo Szilard to Charles Lindbergh, Aug. 14, 1939, Szilard papers, University of California, San Diego, box 12, folder 5.

10

. Charles Lindbergh, “America and European Wars,” speech, Sept. 15, 1939, www.charleslindbergh.com/pdf/9_15_39.pdf.

11

. Leo Szilard to Einstein, Sept. 27, 1933, AEA 39-471. Lindbergh later did not recall getting any letters from Szilard.

12

. Leo Szilard to Einstein, Oct. 3, 1939, AEA 39-473.

13

. Moore, 268. The Napoleon tale is clearly one that Sachs or someone garbled, as Robert Fulton did in fact work on building ships for Napoleon, including a failed submarine; see Kirkpatrick Sale,

The Fire of His Genius

(New York: Free Press, 2001), 68–73.

14

. Sachs told this tale to a U.S. Senate special committee on atomic energy hearing, Nov. 27, 1945. It is recounted in most histories of the atom bomb, including Rhodes, 313–314.

15

. Franklin Roosevelt to Einstein, Oct. 19, 1939, AEA 33-192.

16

. Einstein to Alexander Sachs, Mar. 7, 1940, AEA 39-475.

17

. Einstein to Lyman Briggs, Apr. 25, 1940, AEA 39-484.

18

. Sherman Miles to J. Edgar Hoover, July 30, 1940, in the FBI files on Einstein, foia.fbi.gov/einstein/einstein1a.pdf. A good analysis and context for these files is Jerome.

19

. J. Edgar Hoover to Sherman Miles, Aug. 15, 1940.

20

. Einstein to Henri Barbusse, June 1, 1932, AEA 34-543. The FBI refers to this conference with a different translation of its name, the World Congress against War.

21

. Jerome, 28, 295 n. 6. The Miles note is on the copy in the National Archives but not the FBI files.

22

. Jerome, 40–42.

23

. Einstein, “This Is My America,” unpublished, summer 1944, AEA 72-758.

24

. “Einstein to Take Test,”

New York Times