Let me say only this much to the moral issue involved: Suppose Germany had developed two bombs before we had any bombs. And suppose Germany had dropped one bomb, say, on Rochester and the other on Buffalo, and then having run out of bombs she would have lost the war. Can anyone doubt that we would then have defined the dropping of atomic bombs on cities as a war crime, and that we would have sentenced the Germans who were guilty of this crime to death at Nuremberg and hanged them? -- Leó Szilárd, the American physicist responsible for the creation of the Manhattan Project and widely credited as the first scientist to conceive of a nuclear chain reaction fueled bomb. He forever resented the U.S. govt for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki instead of having a test explosion that could be witnessed by Japanese observers who would then have the opportunity to surrender and spare lives.
Posted on: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 16:04:31 +0000
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