What Einstein taught Bush [Good article]

Jewish World Review ^ | July 14, 2003 / 14 Tamuz, 5763 | Jonathan Gurwitz

[yonif]

On Aug. 2, 1939, a Jewish scientist wrote a letter to the president of the United States, warning him that a fascist dictator was working on a project to produce a new type of weapon that "if carried by a boat and exploded in a port might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory."

The scientist was Albert Einstein. The letter itself was the product of conversations Einstein held with Edward Teller and Leo Szilard, also Jewish scientists.

They met with presidential adviser Alexander Sachs, himself Jewish, who agreed to deliver the letter to the president, Franklin Roosevelt, personally.

The dictator was Adolph Hitler, and the weapon they believed posed a threat to American and international security was the atomic bomb.

Shortly thereafter, with the outbreak of World War II in Europe, the American administration — against popular sentiment — began supporting a small nation under siege and its boisterous wartime leader with large amounts of military and economic assistance.

Opponents charged that this lack of balance in U.S. policy would drag the country into a war in which it had no truck.

Opposition rallies took place across the United States under the banner "America First," led by popular figures such as national hero Charles Lindbergh. Both on the left and the right, Americans demanded that the administration focus on the homefront and economic problems rather than pursuing a foreign agenda.

More extreme opponents claimed that American policy was being unduly influenced by "international Jewry."

On December 11, 1941, four days after being attacked by Imperial Japan, and after Germany had declared war on the United States in fulfillment of the Tripartite Pact, the United States declared war on Nazi Germany, though Germany had not attacked it, nor did Germany pose any immediate threat to the continental United States. The result of this decision was that American troops were sent to Africa, Italy and the shores of France, siphoning off critical manpower and materiel from the war against Japan.

[yonif]

To read the fallacious charges today about the war in Iraq is to re-read that history: that the war was foisted on the United States by a neo-conservative Jewish cabal; that President Bush is a puppet of the war Cabinet of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon; that the war was a diversion from the real threat posed by al-Qaida and from more pressing economic needs at home; that the destruction of buildings and artifacts has greater moral bearing than the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent people; and that the failure to find Saddam's weapons of mass destruction renders his removal from power immoral.

[yonif]

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[LiteKeeper]

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[DallasMike]

Bump for later read.

[cincinnati65]

Outstanding article by someone who gets it.

[dufekin]

One of my favorite Einstein quotes:

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

[PonyTailGuy]

I have been using this historical parallel in debates with liberals for several weeks now.

Einstein's letter to Roosevelt stated that there was activity in the German Universities that suggested Germany had an active nuclear weapons program.

The full version of the article linked in this thread correctly points out another amazing parallel: in the end, THERE WERE NO NUCLEAR PROGRAM IN GERMANY, EINSTEIN HAD RECEIVED BAD INTELLIGENCE!

Unfortunately, in my experience, leftists turn this historical parallel into a softball, hitting it out of the park (as far as scoring cheap points with themselves) with their usual smug comebacks: "oh, comparing GW Bush to Einstein, that's a good one, now he's Einstein, HA HA, HO HO."

What's happening to our country? How DARE these treasonous people disrespect our President without even being able to articulate a coherent dissent.

[talleyman]

My favorite Einstein remark: when asked what was the most powerful force in the universe, Einstein replied, "Compound interest."

[afraidfortherepublic]

The letter itself was the product of conversations Einstein held with Edward Teller ...

My husband used to work in the same lab as Edward Teller, although in a much junior position. (Berkeley, lawrence Radiation Lab) The leftists were in the throes of destroying the Berkeley school system and my husband and I went to a Board meeting. We both addressed the Board, passionately, and received nothing but derision from the left-wing board members.

My husband was IDd as a Rad Lab employee in the newspaper the next day. Following publication we received a phone call from Mrs. Edward Teller who congratulated us for speaking out. She said her hubby agreed with everything we had to say and that it was important that we stood up in public and said it.

Of course my husband's position was eliminated in the next layoff by the quislings in charge of the Rad Lab, but you can probably thank Dr. & Mrs. Edward Teller for both of us being FReepers today.

[Helms]

The Soviet Atomic Bomb: 1939-1949

The most significant early work on fission in the Soviet Union was performed by Yakov Zel'dovich and Yuli Khariton who published a series of papers in 1939-41 that laid the groundwork for later Soviet atomic weapons development.

The Soviet weapons program proper began in 1943 during World War II, under the leadership of physicist Igor Vasilievich Kurchatov. The program was initiated by reports collected by Soviet intelligence about the rapidly growing Manhattan Project in the U.S. It remained largely an intelligence operation until the end of the war, but it was a highly successful one, due to sympathies of many for the wartime Soviet Union fighting Nazi Germany; the socialist political sympathies of some; and the weak security screening program necessitated by the hasty assembly of the vast program. Klaus Fuchs, an important physicist at Los Alamos, was by far the most valuable contributor of atomic information. First Lightning/"Joe-1": The First Soviet Atomic Explosion

Test: First Lightning/"Joe-1"

Time: 07:00 29 August 1949 (local)

Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan

Test Height and Type: Tower

Yield: 22 Kt

The first Soviet nuclear test, code named "First Lightning", detonated a plutonium bomb, the RDS-1. The code designation RDS was actually arbitrary and meaningless, but various people on the project gave it a variety of interpretations, one popular one was "Reaktivnyi Dvigatel Stalina" (Stalin's Rocket Engine), another was "Russia Does It Alone". The whole focus of the Soviet program at this point was to set off a Soviet atomic blast at the earliest possible time whatever the cost. At Beria's insistence, this device was an exact copy of the U.S. Gadget/Fat Man design.

[visitor]

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[DPB101]

We had some real heros back then who stood up to the Rats.

Einstein, Oppenheimer and Szilard weren't among them. When they knew Germany would be defeated, they turned against using the bomb.

They were more interested in the survival of the Soviet Union than of America.