Einstein and Atomic Weapons

Great documentary on Albert Einstein and the quest for atomic weapons. Einstein was faced with a dilemma; assist the Allies in acquiring the ability to build atomic weapons or allow the real possibility of Hitler of acquiring the bomb? Very interesting documentary..

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[orange70383]

I'd believe this a lot easier if it wasn't P(B.S.)

[jordanpasek]

@Jsledge85 And it makes sense to bomb civilian targets with that a-bomb? But none of that compares to the threat of nuclear bombs now. I understand that they couldn't have known what would result from the creation of these weapons and I understand that nuclear weapons have led to good things as well, like nuclear power and the space program. However, you really can't say that the atomic bomb was a good thing.

[Jsledge85]

@jordanpasek [Second Comment] Contrary to your opinion, nuclear weapons arguably prevented even more catastrophic violence and loss of human life. Nuclear weapons certainly prevented yet at Third World War in Europe between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. How many people would that war have claimed? Nuclear weapons guaranteed peace during the Cold War. Furthermore, I never thought it was selfish to value the lives of own my parents, grandfathers (recently deceased), as well as own life before.

[Jsledge85]

@jordanpasek It would have been more than a million. Sure, one million US servicemen were spared, but what about the millions of Japanese citizens (both combatants and non-combatants) who would have perished as the result of aerial bombardment, massive fires, naval artillary batteries, prolonged conventional warfare, famine, disease, and self-inflicted suicide? All senseless when the nuclear weapons were capable of bringing Japan to its inevitable surrender.

[jordanpasek]

@Jsledge85 That's a pretty short sighted and selfish way of looking at things. We may or may not have saved a million lives, oh, and your oh so important life too, but we how have the ability to destroy the entire world. The entire existence of the human race is now under threat. I'm not seeing how that's a good thing.

[Jsledge85]

@davidsegun How? The Manhattan Project arguably saved my life. How you ask? Had the US not developed the atomic bomb to deploy against Japan, both my maternal and paternal grandfathers would have been deployed in an invasion of the Japanese home islands, the US would have suffered one million casualties, the Japanese people would literally have been exterminated as a consequence, and I probably would not have been born, the atomic bomb was a good thing.

[Eldooodarino]

There's a major flaw. The equation E=mc^2 was irrelevant to the making of the bomb. I know this contradicts a lot of conventional wisdom but I am correct. Read "The Los Alamos Primer" by Robert Serber. The primer is the document that incoming scientists at Los Alamos received and Serber wrote both the original and annotated the version you can buy on Amazon. Physicists estimated the energy of fission roughly as ~Z^2/2 where Z is the atomic number not by E=...

[davidsegun]

the military will always act like dickhead and ignorant buffoons

[Runingbullcjh7]

badass documentary i love it

[hayden50]

thanks for uploading this