Appreciate your response.
If Heisenberg as many belived warned the allies through Bohr.
And, then sabotaged Germany’s efforts.
He might be a hero as well in all terms. Humanitarian and scientific.
As you say, there is a lot of evidence that after the Bohr talk, which I think was his mentor, he started sandbagging. He did not want Hitler to have such a mighty weapon.
It would have ended the war in europe at least.
Nuke London, nuke Moscow.
What would America have done?
I think the nuclear bomb was such a game changer.
It questions eveyone’s loyaltees to the root.
It is as if the one ring of Sauron had been found.
What do we do?
Churchill wanted to nuke Moscow.
To end the Russian communist threat onnce and for all.
Thoughts?
To end the Russian communist threat onnce and for all.
Thoughts?
I am completely in the Curtis LeMay school of thought on this, which brings me to Richard Rhodes sequel to the "Making of the Atomic bomb" which was "Dark Sun, the Making of the Hydrogen bomb". In it he states that every day, Russian nuclear scientists would gaze over the hills expecting any minute to see American bombers coming to lay waste to them and their facility.
The Russians fully expected us to attack them, and Curtis LeMay was chomping at the bit in an effort to do exactly that. Curtis LeMay was no fool, he had ran the numbers and he knew what would happen if we didn't stop Soviet Atomic research.
I think it is insane that we didn't make this a line in the sand. It was at this point that we would decide that Atomic proliferation would never be stopped, and I think we will see millions (if not billions) of future dead as a consequence of this foolishness.
In Other words, Churchill was right, as he often was.