Is the American business community racist?

[cronus]

Get stuffed, Scumple.

I'm reversing polarity again. Don't mean it. He knew his stuff. Until he blundered by a slight case of over-bombing I admired him myself.

[pErvinalia]

Bertrand Russell was in favour of a preemptive nuclear strike. Bloody racist brits.

[Hermit]

Until he blundered by a slight case of over-bombing I admired him myself.

If you want to apportion responsibility for the development of atomic bombs, you are looking in the wrong direction. The chief scientists on the US side were Edward Teller and Julius Robert Oppenheimer. Nuclear fission itself was discovered by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in 1938 in Berlin. Einstein had no involvement in either. His sole contribution to the bomb issue was signing a letter written by Leo Szilard with the help of Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner and addressed to President Roosevelt, which pointed out that the Germans were already working on the development of nuclear bombs.

The decision to over-bomb itself was of course completely out of the hands of any of the scientists. That responsibility lies firmly in the hands of the politicians at the time. Furthermore, an argument can be made, firstly, that the net result of killing all those civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was overall fewer deaths in the war with Japan, and secondly, that the possibility of mutually assured destruction, appropriately known by the acronym MAD, prevented the cold war turning into WWIII.

[piscator]

Teller on Einstein:



Teller on The Bomb:

[mistermack]

What part of the US is Teller from?

That sounds like a Bronx accent to me.

[Hermit]

What part of the US is Teller from?

That sounds like a Bronx accent to me.

Teller is from the Hungarian part of the US, specifically Budapest. He was 28 when he arrived in the new world and spent most of the rest of his life in California.

[mistermack]

What part of the US is Teller from?

That sounds like a Bronx accent to me.

Teller is from the Hungarian part of the US, specifically Budapest. He was 28 when he arrived in the new world and spent most of the rest of his life in California.

You'll be telling me Obama's American next. I wasn't born yesterday, you know.

[laklak]

No, he's a gun-hating Muslim.

Einstein got his citizenship in 1940, so that makes him as 'Murikan as pizza, hot dogs and hamburgers.

[Hermit]

Einstein got his citizenship in 1940.

That explains his Valleyspeak accent. Mistermack is sure to back me up on that. He's the expert of everything.

[JimC]

You don't have to be Einstein to realise that this thread has become ratzified...

[mistermack]

Mistermack is sure to back me up on that. He's the expert of everything.

Even a stopped clock is right now and then. So you do stand a chance.

[laklak]

Not if it's a military clock, then it's only right once a day.

[mistermack]

Not if it's a military clock, then it's only right once a day.

That would just count as now, or then, but not both I guess.