Dave, let's not forget Fuchs made the same decision as TED ... On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 12:39 PM Dave Lindorff <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29413): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29413 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104893002/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
