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Leo Szilard wrote a letter for whose signature that led to the Manhattan Project?
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Leo Szilard wrote a letter to Albert Einstein that led to the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb. Szilard had been concerned about the potential of Nazi Germany to develop nuclear weapons, and he believed that the United States needed to take action to prevent this. Einstein was a well-known physicist and his signature on the letter would lend credibility to the cause.
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