possible [for Germany] to set up a
             nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium...[and] a single bomb of this type,
             when carried by a boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port,
             together with some of the surrounding territory." When Roosevelt heard the sincerity and
             fear in Einstein's letter, he knew America needed to beat Germany to harnessing the
             powers of the atomic bomb(Stein, pp. 14-15.). He ordered scientists and military officers and
             Szilard and Teller to see if America could build a nuclear bomb. He was determined to
             fully support a project that could end the war quickly salvaging as many American lives
             as possible. He saw the Manhattan Project as an opportunity to do this so he called for
             Germany and America were very close to developing an atomic bomb. The
             scientists involved in the Manhattan Project had a great respect for the German scientists
             and their capability to produce an atomic weapon. They were aware that the Germans
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