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Map PBS, Hiroshima video Slide 1 (intro) Slide 2 (list of issues) Slide: The spread of nuclear weapons: The story goes something like this. 1939 after the outbreak of WW2 in Europe. The President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt received a letter from physicist Albert Einstein and his Hungarian colleague Leo Szilard, calling to his attention the prospect that a bomb of unprecedented power could be made by tapping the forces of nuclear fission. The two scientists, who had fled from Europe in order to escape Nazism, feared that Hitler-Germany was already working on