Memo by Arthur Compton, May 28, 1945: "[the atomic bomb] introduces the question of mass slaughter, really for the first time in history."pic.twitter.com/ESmibmyJ8I
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Seriously? Compton undercut the efforts of scientists holding those views, and lied about them in his book Atomic Quest.
And (as the memo continues on), its major provocations are not about use in the war, but about international control in the postwar.
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But memo continued, 'I merely mention it as one of the urgent problems that have bothered our men...' Not Compton's own views.
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Sure. But I think he did trouble over the bomb's implications in a serious way.
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Compton not troubled enough to let the Scientific Panel read the Franck Report, according to Oppenheimer's recollection.
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Compton quotation: 'Atomic power is ours, and who can deny that it was God's will that we should have it?'
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