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>Do you know who motivated the US to take on the Manhattan Project? Perhaps it was more like an austrian boi looking for mehr lebensraum, but who am I to say.
by rawTruthHurts 7y ago
>Do you know who motivated the US to take on the Manhattan Project?
Perhaps it was more like an austrian boi looking for mehr lebensraum, but who am I to say.
- killjoywashere 7y agoNo, quite specifically, Einstein's letter to FDR is what motivated the Manhattan Project. Hitler (parent's "austrian boi") may well have had a tremendous weapons program in the works, but Einstein's fear was motivated as much by what he knew of his colleagues in Berlin and the German zeitgeist(1) as anything to do with Hitler specifically. What Hitler wanted would have been trivia if it were not for the capabilities of the scientists who elected to stay in Germany during the rise of Nazism. (1) what an awful yet accurate application of such a nice word, but I digress.
- rawTruthHurts 7y agoWell, agreed, in last instance, the letter was responsible, but it wouldn't have been written if the authors were not concerned about the autrian boi misdemeanors.