August 6th, 1945: Hiroshima was justified

[Hamartia Antidote]

Assuming the invention of nuclear weapons inevitable,

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Einstein's Letter to President Roosevelt - 1939
Albert Einstein
Old Grove Road
Peconic, Long Island
August 2nd, 1939

F.D. Roosevelt
President of the United States
White House
Washington, D.C.

Sir:

Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation which has arisen seem to call for watchfulness and if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration. I believe therefore that it is my duty to bring to your attention the following facts and recommendations.

In the course of the last four months it has been made probable through the work of Joliot in France as well as Fermi and Szilard in America--that it may be possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated. Now it appears almost certain that this could be achieved in the immediate future.

This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable--though much less certain--that extremely powerful bombs of this type may thus be constructed. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory. However, such bombs might very well prove too heavy for transportion by air.

The United States has only very poor ores of uranium in moderate quantities. There is some good ore in Canada and former Czechoslovakia, while the most important source of uranium is in the Belgian Congo.

In view of this situation you may think it desirable to have some permanent contact maintained between the Administration and the group of physicists working on chain reactions in America. One possible way of achieving this might be for you to entrust the task with a person who has your confidence and who could perhaps serve in an unofficial capacity. His task might comprise the following:

a) to approach Government Departments, keep them informed of the further development, and put forward recommendations for Government action, giving particular attention to the problem of securing a supply of uranium ore for the United States.

b) to speed up the experimental work, which is at present being carried on within the limits of the budgets of University laboratories, by providing funds, if such funds be required, through his contacts with private persons who are willing to make contributions for this cause, and perhaps also by obtaining co-operation of industrial laboratories which have necessary equipment.

I understand that Germany has actually stopped the sale of uranium from the Czechoslovakian mines which she has taken over. That she should have taken such early action might perhaps be understood on the ground that the son of the German Under-Secretary of State, von Weizsacker, is attached to the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, where some of the American work on uranium is now being repeated.

Yours very truly,

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Albert Einstein warning President Roosevelt that he suspects Hitler has figured out that uranium could be used to build a super bomb and that Hitler has stopped all export of uranium from Czechoslovakia.

 

[Hack-Hook]

Their crimes in Asia equalled the crimes of the Nazis in my opinion, it's s sickening business. But I still personally, don't feel that this intended destruction of civilians was the way forward in Germany or Japan. The bombing of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden all probably had more of a purpose and sped things along, crushing resistance, possibly saving lives in the long run, we can't know for sure.

One thing I do know is, that in WWI, Germany was defeated, not by slaughtering the civilians within German borders, but defeating and killing their soldiers, the blockade, to the point where they knew they had lost the war.

Well if I want to look at my own country I must say for my people the criminals were neither Japan nor Germany . it was England and Russia who did not honor my country neutrality and their action resulted in the death of more than 2 million Iranian for a war that had nothing to do with us.

Here people talking about brutality of Japan and german but what about Russian or england crimes in area they captured ?

Believe me if German have won the war we would have read another version of that war in mainstream media .

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

resulted in the death of more than 2 million Iranian for a war that had nothing to do with us.

2 million?
Can you give us a break down of the who/where/when this happened.

Obviously England and Russia invaded to both secure a land route to Russia and to prevent oil sales to Germany.

 

[Hack-Hook]

2 million?
Can you give us a break down of the who/where/when this happened.

Obviously England and Russia invaded to both secure a land route to Russia and to prevent oil sales to Germany.

First there was no oil sale to Germany as england had the exclusive rights to explore , extract and export oil in Iran . they wanted our rail road to provide support for Russia and as a neutral country we refused and so they attacked us.

And about that 2 million england and Russia occupying forces actions in iran resulted in a severe shortage of food that resulted in the death of two milion people.

 

[raptor22]

No one can whitewash what happened in Japan during WWII, killing civilians could not be justified ethically, it gives green light for murdering more people in future .