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Why not let the man himself tell you (as a surrogate for Roosevelt) the story https://www.atomicarchive.com/resources/documents/beginnings/einstein.html https:

• peterashford 1mo ago
  Ahh... I took "published" on splitting the atom to mean the scientific write up of having split the atom - which was Rutherford - rather than the looser meaning - having just written about the idea in general. My bad.