In it, Einstein highlights recent experiments in uranium.
"It is conceivable — though much less certain — that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed," he wrote.
Einstein encourages Roosevelt to strengthen communication "between the Administration and the group of physicists working on chain reactions in America."
Of course, the United States beat Germany, and the rest of the world, in acquiring nuclear weaponry, and went on to wield the atomic bomb against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Notably, the only country ever to do so in battle.