My view is that Oppenheimer should have done what Ted Hall did, or used his considerable clout to convince Roosevelt to bring America's wartime, the Soviet Union in on the bomb project, or at least to alert them to what it was doing in secret. The film presents Oppenheimer as a tragic figure fighting in vain to regain his security clearance so he could continue to work on nuclear fission and fusion research, when he could have simply shifted to astrophysics and devoted brilliance to trying to do what other brillant physicists were doing, seeking to find a unified theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.
He should also have resigned over the decision to nuke Japan and joined Joseph Rotblat, who quit the Manhattan Project in November 1944 when he decided the bomb should not be built if Germany was not going to get an atomic bomb.. That it took a 19-year-old kid to realize that if the Soviets didn't get the bomb the world would be subject to US nuclear domination is shameful. Dave On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 12:26 PM Bobby MacVeety <[email protected]> wrote: > Are we as Marxists defending the sacred document? Could a constitutional > convention be a revolutionary moment? > > On Mar 13, 2024, at 9:20 AM, Charlie <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 12:21 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > > I doubt they will attempt to destroy the existing constitutional > structures. In fact, they claim to be the best defenders of The > Constitution and their base takes them at their word. > > This time Marv gives us well less than a half-truth. > > Warn Voters About the Radicalism Beyond Trump (excerpts) > > Nancy MacLean, New Republic, February 8, 2024 > > Lurking behind the full-frontal assault by Donald Trump and his enablers > lies a more far-reaching threat. If the Republicans gain control of both > Houses of Congress, expect a state-authorized Constitutional Convention to > eviscerate core rights and protections most Americans hold dear. > > Although the convention push has been all but ignored by the commentariat > and national Democratic leaders, it has powerhouse backing. The Koch > network and other dark-money donors are generously funding it. The > corporation-underwritten American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has > supplied “model legislation” and training to Republican state legislators. > Endorsers include Mark Meadows, Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, Sean Hannity, > and many more. Convention of States Action (COS), the 501c(4) organization > leading the campaign, whose head was a co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, > has recruited and deployed volunteers to lobby their legislatures. (It also > offers training in “biblical citizenship.”) COS has held three practice > conventions with legislators from nearly every state. The Heritage > Foundation—the 800-pound gorilla on the right—recently signed on in “a > game-changing report” that such a convention would be “a potent check on > federal power” and is “a worthy cause.” That endorsement is likely to drive > even more cash to add to the over $70 million in IRS-traceable > contributions that groups solely focused on convening such a gathering have > garnered from 2012 to 2022, in findings of the Center for Media and > Democracy. That figure does not include contributions to ALEC, which has > promoted the convention since 2013; its revenue hovers around $10 million > annually. > > How many of us know that there are two routes to amending the > Constitution—the usual one, and the nuclear option never yet tried? Under > Article V of the Constitution, Congress “shall call a convention for > proposing amendments” when it receives applications from two-thirds of the > states. In reality, this is hard, because one party would need to control > both houses of 34 state legislatures (or 33 plus unicameral Nebraska). But > ALEC has fabricated a claim built around the idea that enough states have > made past calls for a convention, some going back decades, for the idea to > proceed. It plans to use these outdated state resolutions to argue to the > courts that they should force Congress to convene one. > > But it gets worse. If Republicans control Congress, they won’t have to > bother with litigation, because it would be up to the majority in control > to determine the validity of the applications—and Article V lacks the > guardrails to prevent this manipulation. > > The six amendments adopted by the Simulated Convention held in > Williamsburg, Virginia, on August 4, 2023, would dismantle reforms We the > People have won over generations. The centerpiece amendment, entitled > “Fiscal Restraints,” is a one-two punch to knock out popular programs such > as Social Security, unemployment insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid. > > > Nancy MacLean is the William H. Chafe Distinguished Professor of History > and Public Policy and author most recently of Democracy in Chains: The Deep > History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America. > > > https://newrepublic.com/article/178442/republicans-rewrite-constitution-radicalism-beyond-trump > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. 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