Take a look at the history of the Manhattan project. It's a fascinating case study of how the most brilliant minds on the planet, can end up on opposite sides

Take a look at the history of the Manhattan project. It's a fascinating case study of how the most brilliant minds on the planet, can end up on opposite sides of a moral question. For every Robert Oppenheimer who has a doubt and raises the moral question, there is an Edward Teller who is charging ahead doubt free. At the end of the story the strength of the personalities mattered much more than the soundness of their arguments.