Which is to say: the US would not have let it get in their way at all. They had various means of doing that: http://alexwellerstein.com/publications/wellerstein_patentingthebomb(isis).pdf …
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It's not senseless. Again, it's about consolidating control. If you want to say something is senseless, blame IP law! OSRD took it seriously
To say that the bomb doesn't need to be cared for by IP procedures means saying it is going to be considered different every other tech;
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...which *Congress* was able and willing to do! But federal government can't do that on its own, during a secret project.
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Atomic Energy Act of 1946 bans patenting of nuclear weapons in US — it is the *only* category of working tech treated that way!
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Which shows the lengths you have to go if you want to make the bomb fall "outside the law" (i.e., you have to change the law).
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Seriously, Alex, if Szilard or anyone had sued for rights to the bomb? Zilch.
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Only because they changed the laws! People in charge of this took a cavalier attitude towards patent law in WWI, and paid for it.
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Read the article I wrote! Or just presume to know, your choice...
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Alex, your article was published in 2008 and I'm quite familiar with it.
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Nations are sovereigns, and do what they want. Legalism be damned.
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