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Franklin D. Roosevelt is a better fit for an administrative nuclear program "founder" analogy. Truman was totally in the dark until April 1945 by which time th
by defrost 5mo ago
Franklin D. Roosevelt is a better fit for an administrative nuclear program "founder" analogy.
Truman was totally in the dark until April 1945 by which time the bulk of the PoC and weapons prep work was done and the project was running fully independently w/o POTUS involvement.
- emodendroket 5mo agoYet the guys in the lab coats worked for him.
- defrost 5mo agoNot for the bulk of the Manhattan project and not all the people in lab coats .. the intellectual founders that repeatedly pushed for the project and demonstrated feasibility weren't even US citizens.
- emodendroket 5mo agoI picked the guy whose contribution was smaller on purpose to highlight the hollowness of the claim about “controlling the careers” of people who understand what’s going on.