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How can you trust what Feynman says about science when he was on the team that created the atrocious bomb that destroyed two cities and obliterated tends of tho
by hasenj 11y ago
How can you trust what Feynman says about science when he was on the team that created the atrocious bomb that destroyed two cities and obliterated tends of thousands of lives in an instant?
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- golergka 11y agoThis bomb also ended the war that was costing more civilian lives in conventional war methods (like fire bombing of Tokyo). If anything, in the context of WWII, _first_ bomb ended up actually saving lives.
- hasenj 11y agoI call bullshit. The bomb enabled communism to take over most of East Asia. The bomb is the reason why half the world lived under communist dictatorships. The war could have ended via an armistice, if only America was willing to negotiate one, but no, they wanted to go all in. After the war, Korea was worse off for decades. We think of "South Korea" as an advanced nation like Japan, but actually South Korea was ruled by a brutal military dictatorship not different from third world countries (there was a story about that just a few days ago).
- golergka 11y ago> The bomb enabled communism to take over most of East Asia. > The bomb is the reason why half the world lived under communist dictatorships. Right, it was the bomb and not the whole anti-war 60s movement, which led to US disengagement from SE Asia at large.
- hasenj 11y agoSixties? That's long after the fact.