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A three-minute story from this date in the Second World War, narrated, with the sources to check it. Then the battle it belongs to, drawn on the map phase by phase.
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WED 11 OCT 1939War day 41Home front
Alexander Sachs finally got his meeting with Franklin Roosevelt. He brought a warning about atomic bombs—and chose to explain it in his own words.
On 11 October 1939, economist Alexander Sachs met President Franklin D. Roosevelt and delivered a letter signed by Albert Einstein. The letter had been drafted with physicist Leo Szilard and dated in August. Sachs had promised to put the warning before Roosevelt in person; the outbreak of war in Europe had delayed the meeting for weeks.
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