21 июл. 2023 г. · Before J. Robert Oppenheimer had a change of heart, some of his fellow scientists opposed the U.S. government's plan to make and deploy an ...

Chadwick pressed for British involvement in the Manhattan Project to the fullest extent and abandoned hopes of an independent British project during the war.

Many scientists at Los Alamos rebelled against the notion of creating a weapon thousands of times more powerful than the first atomic bombs.

15 июл. 2023 г. · J. Robert Oppenheimer stifled a petition by 70 scientists beseeching President Truman not to use the atomic bomb. Read it here.

7 мар. 2024 г. · He was the only scientist who left [the Manhattan Project] for reasons of conscience to devote his life to fight against nuclear weapons.

In July 1940, the U.S. Army Intelligence office denied Einstein the security clearance needed to work on the Manhattan Project. The hundreds of scientists on ...

Many of the scientists that took a leading role in alerting the United States government to this danger, such as Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard, ...

5 дней назад · The person who oversaw the Manhattan Project, however, was not a scientist. He was Leslie Groves, a brigadier general in the U.S. Army.

Leo Szilard drafted the petition below to the President in the summer of 1945 attempting to avert the U.S.'s use of the atomic bomb against Japan.

At the May 31 meeting, Lawrence suggested that a demonstration of the atomic bomb might possibly convince the Japanese to surrender. This was rejected, however, ...