What I take from the movie Opppenheimer

AProudLefty

AProudLefty

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They were afraid of intelligent people.
They were afraid of Communists.
They were afraid of potential of destruction. (Gravity gonna swallow the stars in)
They were afraid of their own work that can result in destruction

They, today, ....
 
AProudLefty said:
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Well, maybe the movie gave that impression, but reality was very different. Vandever Bush (no relation to the presidents) headed the wartime commission on technology and was very much using smart people to do lots of stuff.

The "Rad Lab" at MIT
GALCIT
ORDCIT
NACA
Section T at Johns Hopkins university

To name a few...

The US during the war didn't put a lot of stock into hunting down communists or Soviet spies. The only real effort in that direction was to quash any protests such persons made towards anti-war efforts against the US.

Let me add, that the Manhattan project was a comparable bargain compared to many other US wartime programs:

The B-29 program cost about 1.5 times as much
Defeating the U-boat threat ran about 5 times as much
Radar and other electronics ran about double
US overseas base building dwarfs the cost of getting a nuclear weapon.
 
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AProudLefty said:
They were afraid of intelligent people.
They were afraid of Communists.
They were afraid of potential of destruction. (Gravity gonna swallow the stars in)
They were afraid of their own work that can result in destruction

They, today, ....
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Afraid of communists, yes, but disagreed on the destructive power of the weapons since the government supported building bigger and more powerful bombs.
 
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