To: rlmorel
"Oppenheimer was no hero. He was a scientist. And General Groves was astute enough to accept the risk of him being a communist sympathizer, if not a hidden party member."
And then the U.S. Government sought out and grabbed, as many German scientists as they could, that had worked for the Nazis in WWII.
41 posted on
05/09/2023 12:24:05 AM PDT by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
To: mass55th
And then the U.S. Government sought out and grabbed, as many German scientists as they could, that had worked for the Nazis in WWII.If we did not grab them and put them to work for us, the Soviets would have done the same. They did do the same with all the ones they could get their hands on. We were in a Cold War with totalitarian Communism and we had to win at any cost. If that meant employing some scientists who had happily worked for the Nazis, so be it.
47 posted on
05/09/2023 1:51:04 AM PDT by
FLT-bird
To: mass55th
The Germans weren’t coming at us for global domination with nuclear weapons at that time, as I recall.
And the Communists, in blood, made the Nazis look like pikers. Hundreds of millions to tens of millions dead by communist hands.
53 posted on
05/09/2023 3:46:26 AM PDT by
rlmorel
("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
To: mass55th
And then the U.S. Government sought out and grabbed, as many German scientists as they could, that had worked for the Nazis in WWII. If we didn't get them, the Russkies would have.
70 posted on
05/09/2023 6:42:45 AM PDT by
dfwgator
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