What Happened To The Jewish Scientists Behind Hiroshima?

Jewish refugee scientists fled H!tler and helped America build the weapon they feared Germany would create first. When that threat disappeared, Leo Szilard, Albert Einstein, and Robert Oppenheimer faced a terrifying reality: they had opened a door they could not close. The Manhattan Project began as a desperate race for survival and ended with Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and a moral reckoning that haunted the brilliant minds behind the atomic bomb.

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