Roughly a month ago, things weren't going so well for Flying Saucer Pie Company. Increasing costs and dwindling sales had steadily chipped away at the 58-year-old Houston bakery's rainy-day fund.
In August of 1939, Albert Einstein sent a letter to U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, advising him that the process of nuclear fission could potentially be used to create a powerful atomic ...