Current Events > Would you have been willing to participate in the Manhattan Project?

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Let's say you're alive in the early 40s in the US and have the knowledge and ability to make a direct impact on the production of the weapons. Would you be willing to participate?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project

The Manhattan Project began modestly in 1939, but grew to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly US$2 billion (equivalent to about $23 billion in 2019)

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yeah, sure
i'd take part in it
and i'd be the guy who messes up the math, or drops a beaker or something which blows the whole shit up in their faces

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Hell no

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Hell yeah and I would drop Japan a message that says "You better fucking release Dragon's Dogma Online in the west this time or a third one is coming"

I would.
It's one thing to look back nearly 80 years later at all the pain nuclear weapons have wrought and pretend like you would have been noble and declined to help, but it would be quite another thing at the time to be faced with the decision of "either Hitler gets this first or we do" (regardless of the accuracy that is what everyone thought) and to just decide not to help.

I said I'd sabotage, but would it be developed eventually anyways? If it's developed later by both the US and the soviet union, then the cold war may not be so cold without the tragic examples of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

So, I'm not so sure any more. And maybe don't #deporteinstein

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