On a wednesday afternoon 67 Octobers ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt agreed to see Alexander Sachs, a New York economist and occasional adviser. The topic: weapons of mass destruction. The meeting, which took place at the White House on Oct 11, 1939, was, Richard Rhodes wrote in the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Making of the Atomic Bomb," "the first authoritative report to a head of state of the possibility of using nuclear energy to make a weapon of war."
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