Word: a-bomb
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...EFFORT was not a popular move in 1944; neither was opposing nukes at the height of the cold war in the 1950s and '60s. Popularity evidently wasn't high on Joseph Rotblat's list, though. The Polish-born British physicist was helping the U.S. develop the first A-bomb when he concluded that Nazi Germany was never going to build its own. So he quit his job with the Manhattan Project--the only physicist to do so--believing that only the threat of losing World War II could justify creating so terrible a weapon. Then, in 1955, Rotblat joined Albert...
...when he moved to the U.S. in 1944 to join the American A-bomb effort, his doubts deepened almost at once. When he heard U.S. General Leslie Groves, the Manhattan Project's supervisor, say that the real reason for continuing was to keep the Russians in line after the war, Rotblat was "deeply shocked." When he quit, "I was accused of being a spy, and left only after agreeing not to talk to anybody about my reason for leaving...
WHILE FRANCE IS TAKING ALL THE BLAME and is the focus of protests for raising nuclear fears, China has kept on performing underground A-bomb tests, and does not get even one-tenth the media attention the French experiments do. Why are the Greenpeace activists always ready to move forward and promote all kinds of demonstrations when the event involves a Western corporation or government, particularly the French? And why do they keep a low profile or even a significative silence when similar actions are performed by a socialist nation like China? Come on, guys, if you really mean...
...A-BOMB HAD NOT BEEN DROPPED, it is quite possible many of the people crying out against it would never have been born. The invasion of Japan would have cost an untold number of lives on both sides. Many of those who died could have been the parents of those now asking that the U.S. apologize for dropping the A-bomb. EDGAR S. SPIZEL La Jolla, California...
...birth of Teller's bomb was an uneasy one. Some scientists, notably Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who led Los Alamos during the war, believed that it was inherently immoral, a weapon of genocide, since its lethal footprint (unlike the A-bomb's) could not be confined to a purely military objective. He was convinced that the development of the H-bomb would only escalate the arms race. It was in fact his dedicated opposition to the Super, claims Rhodes, and not his cursory contacts with Soviet agents, that led the Atomic Energy Commission in 1953 to strip Oppenheimer...