“Even if we should have a war, the prospects for the survival of the human race would be rather good, but the prospects for the survival of the United States would be bad.”

— Leo Szilard

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About Leo Szilard

Scientist • Hungarian-American

Leo Szilard was a brilliant Hungarian-American physicist and inventor who first conceived of the nuclear chain reaction in 1933. His foresight led him to co-patent the idea of a nuclear reactor and draft the famous...

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