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Sachs was advocate
Press Assn.—Copyright) NEW YORK, June 25.
Alexander Sachs, the man who first interested President Franklin Roosevelt in the potential of the atom bomb, has died at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Centre. He was 79.
Mr Sachs, an economist, read a report to President Roosevelt from Professor Albert Einstein in October, 1939, predicting that an atomic bomb carried by ship could wipe out an entire port. The report was supported by comments from Dr Leo Szilard, an American physicist, and Professor Enrico Fermi, a fugitive from Italy. Mr Sachs told Mr Roosevelt that Professor Einstein and Dr Szilard were worried about the implications of atomic energy in the hands of a hostile power. He said Dr Szilard and Professor Fermi were only one step ahead of Nazi physicists in research on a nuclear bomb. President Roosevelt launched the atomic project soon afterwards.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33261, 26 June 1973, Page 15
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