Leo Szilard was someone who would consider the long-term implications of science and would analyse the links between scientific discoveries and world events. Eventually, the nuclear chain reaction was ...

The Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs turns 30 on July 7. Leo Szilard, the physicist who since 1945 had been proposing just such a meeting of Russian and Western scientists to discuss ...

On July 16, 1939, Szilard decided to force the issue. He left Columbia with a colleague and headed to Nassau Point. After much meandering — the physicists had no address, just a general sense of ...

Letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt about nuclear physicist Dr. Leo Szilard, 1945. 112 Mercer Street Princeton, New Jersey March 25, 1945. The Honorable Franklin D ...

Using radar to detect cosmic neutrinos in ice sheets, why Leo Szilard changed his mind on nuclear weapons 09 Feb 2023 Hamish Johnston This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Steven ...