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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But memo continued, 'I merely mention it as one of the urgent problems that have bothered our men...' Not Compton's own views.
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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