Leo Szilard Quotes
If the thickness is larger than the critical value I can produce an explosion.
Szilard, Leo. Leo Szilard: His Version of the Facts: Selected Recollections and Correspondence. Edited by Spencer R. Weart and Gertrud Weiss Szilard, MIT Press, 1978.
Kissinger and Nixon were talking about the Russian discrimination and persecution of Jews throughout the Soviet Union. Kissinger had drawn an extreme hypothetical analogy of Russians sending Jews to gas chambers. See related quote. This quotation was uncovered in 2010 when more of the Nixon White House tapes were released. Nixon tended to have the worst stereotyped view of all minority groups.
During the American Revolution, the Iroquois sided with the British, aiding them militarily and other ways. The revolutionaries responded by attacking and destroying most of the Iroquois who retreated to British Canada.
Roosevelt was preparing to suggest government regulation of large corporations and trusts. See Theodore Roosevelt {42023}
Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-American physicist and inventor. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear fission reactor in 1934, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb. According to György Marx he was one of the Hungarian scientists known as The Martians.
