A more nuanced description: the men who directly instigated the US atomic bomb effort were refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe with knowledge of the discovery o

A more nuanced description: the men who directly instigated the US atomic bomb effort were refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe with knowledge of the discovery of the fission and potential chain reaction of uranium in Germany in 1939, which meant that an atomic bomb was quite likely to be possible. Once Germany had been defeated and the largely-ruined Japan plainly had no realistic pathway to developing such a weapon mmany of these same men argued for the bomb not to be used [1] but as the British found with their strategic bombing of Germany, a weapon propounded as a saviour and developed at staggering expense is difficult to lay aside, even if both its utility and morality are questioned. [1] https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/leo-szilards-fight-stop-bomb https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/leo-szilards-fight-st...