Szilard: President Truman Did Not Understand

Leo Szilard, one of the scientific minds that pushed the Manhattan Project, later became a big champion against nuclear weapons. In this interview he makes some predictions that, looking back, were incredible accurate.

Q Did you think then that the Russians probably were working on the bomb?
A I had no idea of this. The question before us was: Should we think in terms of America's having a long-term monopoly of the bomb after the war, or will Russia have the bomb before long also? I had no doubt that we would start an atomic-arms race if we used the bomb.