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Szilard sat down hard on his bed and contemplated how his many relatives and friends always thought of him that way: Eccentric. And always trying to be prophetic.
He had become used to people not believing him. A most dangerous miscalculation that even his scientific colleagues shared about him, then later on – agreeing that he was right all along! Szilard knew he was eccentric, he had always been so.
Sitting alone on the edge of his bed, he reflected on his fears of Hitler, who had just become Germany’s new chancellor, and then he whispered to himself, a common refrain: “All I have to do is just turn the key to my luggage, if things get really bad.” Only two months into Adolf Hitler’s chancellorship, Nazi thugs routinely organised boycotts against all Jewish businesses, and regularly gathered Jews in the streets to physically beat them senselessly, and often fatally. With his life savings hidden in his shoes, Szilard turned the keys to his luggage, locking them, and then fled to Vienna on an empty train without incident.
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The very next day, crowds of people wanting to flee Germany were also on the same train, but, this time -- it was stopped by the Nazis who forced all non-Aryans to turn back. “It just goes to show,” Szilard would recall, “that if you want to succeed in this world you don’t have to be much cleverer than other people . . . you just have to be one day earlier!”
The trepidation and narrow escape he experienced in Nazi Germany left a lasting and eccentric mark on Szilard: for the rest of his life, wherever he was – even when in America as a U. S. citizen -- he would always keep two suitcases packed and ready.
LEO SZILARD BRINGS URGENT NEWS TO AMERICA: “THE FATE OF THE ENTIRE WORLD IS NOW AT STAKE!” Once again, this time because he fears that another war in Europe is inevitable, Leo Szilard turns the keys on both his luggage, locks them, and emigrates to the United States. On 2 January 1938, he reaches New York onboard the ocean liner RMS Franconia.
In the ensuing weeks and months, Szilard moves about, here and there, urgently speaking to colleagues and warning them that a rumour has leaked out from Europe that Nazi Germany had created a weapons programme with the intent
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to create an unimaginable nuclear/atomic bomb. Szilard also speaks to Niels Bohr and Enrico Fermi about his suspicions that uranium is, indeed, the corrrect “core element of sustaining a chain reaction,” thus creating an unimaginable nuclear explosion!
entire harbours (a necessity for all warships), as well as expunging huge surrounding areas, and even entire towns and cities, instantly!
The young physicist, Leo Szilard, knew well of what he spoke and thought. It was Szilard who had conceived the “nuclear chain reaction” back in 1933.
Leo Szilard suddenly felt the same terror as when he resided in Germany!
At the time, both Niels Bohr and Enrico Fermi remain unconvinced about uranium as the key or core element for such a super bomb. Albert Einstein would also be among the disbelievers.
It was also Szilard who patented the idea for a “nuclear fission (reactor)” in 1934.
And it was Leo Szilard who patented a far more advanced “nuclear fission reactor” than his previous one – in essence, outperforming and surpassing himself. An yet, his pleas regarding the danger of uranium being exploited for such a nuclear weapon falls on deaf ears. In 1938, even America’s top scientists did not believe the atomic bomb was even possible.
Szilard would end up describing such a devastating nuclear bomb as so powerful as to be able to erase
In a world, 84 years ago, such an unimaginable super weapon was considered to be impossible.
Such a description of a huge, cataclysmic event of Biblical Armageddon proportions was thought to be – once again -- eccentric thinking of Szilard trying to be prophetic and again overreacting.
History would record that even theoretical physicists thought that Szilard’s often profound thoughts to be “not of this world,” to the point where even celebrated science scholar and historian, Gyorgy Marx (1927-2022) records that many referred to Szilard as one of the scientists known as “The Martians.”
LEO SZILARD’S LAST FRANTIC PLAN: TO MEET WITH ALBERT EINSTEIN WHO NOW RESIDES IN AMERICA. After months of travelling about, frantically and unsuccessfully meeting with dubious colleagues, he comes away terrified of the shape of things to come.
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