A Manhattan Project Veteran Reflects on His Atomic Bomb Work(nytimes.com)
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A Manhattan Project Veteran Reflects on His Atomic Bomb Work
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Fate is ever the comedian.
I've been reading Studs Terkel's The Good War, an oral history of WW2, and there are some incredible interviews with members of the Manhattan Project in it. At least at the beginning, they really thought Germany would beat them to the bomb.
A lot of people speculate on what would have happened if Hitler had not made so many disastrous military decisions. The simple truth is the US would have dropped the bomb on Berlin, and they would have lost anyway.
If Hitler that gotten the bomb first he could have dropped it on London and the war would have been over.
His nuclear program was so far behind it is unlikely it would have ever produced anything. Nor were the resources available to do anything on the scale of the Manhattan Project.
“He knew I was a loudmouthed New Yorker,” said Dr. Bederson, who grew up in the Bronx. “He said, ‘Here’s your chance to get back to New York.’”
LMAO.