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William lanouette biography

          William Lanouette is a writer and policy analyst, as well as an expert on the Manhattan Project who has written extensively about the politics of nuclear..

          William Lanouette has written about atomic energy and arms control for more than two decades.

        1. William Lanouette is the author of “Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb.” Lanouette highlights Szilard's.
        2. William Lanouette is a writer and policy analyst, as well as an expert on the Manhattan Project who has written extensively about the politics of nuclear.
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        4. Bill is a writer and public policy analyst who has specialized in the history of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons.

          5. William Lanouette’s Interview

          Cindy Kelly: I’m Cindy Kelly from the Atomic Heritage Foundation. It is Friday, April 11, 2014, and I have with me William Lanouette who is going to be talking about Leo Szilard.

          Why don’t you start by actually saying your full name and spelling it? 

          Bill Lanouette: I’m William Lanouette, L-A-N-O-U-E-T-T-E. 

          Kelly: Tell us about Szilard. Who was he?

          LANOUETTE, William (John).

          What’s his background? 

          Lanouette: Leo Szilard was born Leo Spitz, S-P-I-T-Z, on February 11, 1898 in Budapest, Hungary to an assimilated middle class Jewish family in the garden district of Budapest.

          In the year 1900, the family changed its name under the Magyarization to make things more Hungarian to Szilard, S-Z-I-L-A-R-D, which means “strong or stout,” or something like that. The FBI, which kept an eye on Szilard, always referred to him as “Leo Spitz,” because that was the first name that they had. 

          He was born to a family that eventually had two other kids.

          He had