Nuclear Weapons And The Moral Accountability Of The ÉMigré Scientists
Introduction:
In the years following the discovery of nuclear fission, the prospects of this new phenomena having some technological application (in the form of a bomb) were gradually realised. During this period, Leo Szilard and fellow émigré scientists involved in the Manhattan Project became clearly entangled between their moral obligations to the United States, to the scientific community, and possibly even to their homeland in Europe. By analysing the details of key events, this paper will aim to explain exactly what their moral obligations to each party were, and to what extent these obligations were adhered to, up until VJ-Day . By the conclusion it will be clear that the émigrés primarily honoured their obligations to the U.S. government over and above those to the scientific community.
Experiment and Censorship:
Even four years before fission was proven, Szilard intuitively sensed its possibility. What's more striking were his efforts to censor his first......
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