[liberallarry]

No. I'm afraid you still don't understand. These men had a much clearer and better view of the world than you and I. They truly were brilliant and they had access to power. They were power.

Read the Szilard interview carefully. Do you think he's unaware of who the Soviets were? Of who the Japanese were? Of who the Germans were? Of who we were?

He made his decisions very carefully - and he certainly did not betray his country or intend to betray it. He came to different conclusions than you about how to advance it's interests. That's very different. All the difference in the world.

[MEG33]

They did not have the right to make that decision for our country.We are a republic and vote on our leaders to lead.They did not have the ultimate power or the responsibility to make those decisions.

[nopardons]

" Brilliant " men and especially scientists , aren't neccessarily " brilliant " when it comes to everything else. You don't even know much about Leo Szilard, yet, because you like what he said in one article, you suppose that he knew more and better than those of us here on this thread. Again, you're dead wrong !

Dr. Szilard wasn't all that " brilliant " about a lot of things. He had, many years prior to the Manhattam project, figured out the rudiments of A-Bomb. He wrote it all down and then did nothing much with it. Much of his life, both scientific and other, was like that. He was a sacastic man, had a biting sense of " humor ", and, from boyhood, had a wish to save the world. He was also something of an eccentric and NO, he did NOT really understand politics, the Russians, nor have a " clearer and better view of the world than you and I ". You only assume this to be a fact.