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42. The use of the bomb was not about ending the war

Wed Aug 28, 2013, 08:55 PM

Aug 2013

The war was over, everyone at the top knew the Japanese were ready to surrender and there was going to be no mainland invasion, and the Potsdam Declaration was delayed until after Trinity to see if it was worth wording it to goad the Japanese into giving us an excuse for a little science fair experiment before things were finalized. This is all made quite plain and very well documented in Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and which I don't think anybody considers "self-serving propaganda."

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So that's what happened to Jared-Syn Orrex Aug 2013 #6

I wonder if anyone is considering a code of ethics for engineers that might make them think twice... LongTomH Aug 2013 #7

I think the Manhattan Project already answered your question. AtheistCrusader Aug 2013 #17

Not the Manhattan Project as much as Operation Paper Clip HubertHeaver Aug 2013 #35

Not so localroger Aug 2013 #37

Accept the idea the Manhattan Project was, by 1944, not really about WWII you (generic you) then HubertHeaver Aug 2013 #41

The use of the bomb was not about ending the war localroger Aug 2013 #42

What other sources do you have? HubertHeaver Aug 2013 #43

Seriously? localroger Aug 2013 #45

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This concept is 20 years old, has never been deployed (though the chinese are working on it) AtheistCrusader Aug 2013 #16

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