Rud Nielson, in Physics Today, October 1963, page 22). Later, in 1957, Bohr stated, “It was terrible that no one over there,” in the UK and the US, “had worked on the solution of the problems that would arise when it became possible to release nuclear energy they were completely unprepared.” (See “Memories of Niels Bohr,” by J. Hoping that Niels Bohr would support his appeal, Einstein wrote to him: “The politicians do not appreciate the possibilities and consequently do not know the extent of the menace” (page 483). They felt that the policymakers had to be made aware of the immense consequences of that development.
In December 1944 Einstein learned from his friend Otto Stern that a US atomic bomb would probably become a reality in the war.
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