Albert Einstein’s atomic bomb warning letter sells for Rs. 32.7 crore: Content inside
Albert Einstein’s 1939 letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning of Nazi nuclear advancements and urging U.S. atomic research, sold for ₹32.7 crore ($3.9 million) at a Christie’s auction. Co-signed by physicist Leo Szilard, the letter was pivotal in initiating the Manhattan Project. Although Einstein later regretted his role in the atomic bomb’s development, the letter remains a powerful reminder of science’s ethical dilemmas and its profound impact on world history.