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Regarding the WWII Meeting of Bohr & Heisenberg
HarlanC writes: "The NY Times has an article (registration required) discussing the famous meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen in 1941. The conclusion is that Heisenberg revealed to Bohr the existance of a Nazi atomic program in an attempt to obtain assistance from Bohr. The Times of London article is here (long registration process required)" The play "Copenhagen" was based on a fictionalization of this meeting, it was much better than "Proof", I assure you.
Thanks for the posting.
Isn't it interesting that Bohr was frightened that the Nazis would have such a weapon only to see it used to butcher Japanese civilians five years later by "the good guys"?
Perhaps he should have been frightened, period. Perhaps the whole lot of them should have been clockmakers, like Albert said.
Of course, that part goes unmentioned in the NYT article, because that might call into question just who really *did* use those horrible weapons, and it might have to be stated that it wasn't everyone's favorite boogeyman of the 20th century. We can't have people thinking about the realities of the past; no, interesting what-ifs make for much better propaganda.
Actually, Japan didn't give up until Russian declared that it was going to enter the War against Japan. Yeah, we nuked them once, and they didn't give up. We nuked them a second time, and they still didn't give up.
Honestly, as far as I know, we didn't have anymore nukes, and so if not for Russia, Japan would have continued the war.
Of course, commies are evil, and Hitler is the boogieman. Or maybe getting so fixated on one organization's and one man's evils blinds us to the numerous other crimes against humanity... such as the Israel occupation of Palestine by means of USA military aid, USA money, and USA propaganda.