>> On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:02:22 -0700, The Starmaker
>> <starma...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>> >Wayne Throop wrote:

>> >> : The Starmaker <starma...@ix.netcom.com>
>> >> : Szilard, was Einstien's messenger boy...

>> >> Exactly backwards, since Szilard wrote the letter and Einstein signed it.

>> >"Sachs..adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt, urged that Einstein should write directly to the President.
>> >If Einstein wrote such a letter,  Sachs promised to deliver it to the President personally.

>> >"Einstein dictated a short draft in German which Szilard took down."

>> >"Over the next few days, Szilard translated Einstein's dictation, going through draft after draft.
>> > In the end, he prepared both a short and a long version.
>> >On August 2, he mailed them to Einstein. Einstein returned both versions signed, but he
>> >expressed a preference for the longer version. This was the version, dated August 2, that
>> >Szilard gave to Sachs for delivery to the President."

>> >http://www.dannen.com/ae-fdr.html
>> -----
>> This you got right you are correct in this case, but your whole notion
>> that Einstein created the A-Bomb is still incorrect. At best you can
>> say he used his prestige to get it built, but it was designed and
>> built by others. Einstein just understood the science and so was able
>> to describe what a bomb would do and its general physical dimensions
>> but that was in theory. Actually designing and building such a thing
>> was left to Robert Oppenheimer and his staff and it wasn't easy since
>> there were failures along the way. Still going from theoretical
>> description of Einstein's letter in August 2, 1939-today is the 73rd
>> aniversary of the letter-to detonating one in July 1945 and dropping
>> one on Hiroshima six years after the letter is pretty damn fast. Even
>> more remoarkable if you count from 1942 when the Manhattan Project
>> actually started.

>The atom bomb was already designed before
>Before Einstein's letter in August 2, 1939...and Robert Oppenheimer and his staff..

>On July 4, 1934 Einstein-Szilard filed a patent application for the atomic bomb.
>http://intergate.cccoe.k12.ca.us/abomb/popups/patent.htm
>http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/64/ft5s200764/fi...
>http://worldwide.espacenet.com/espacenetImage.jpg?KC=A&CC=GB&FT=D&NR=...

>The Starmaker

>Happy Anniversary Japan, ...sorry, not everybody hates Germans.

>http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5050/5223123699_b3c4b66215_o.jpg