History repeating: Trump, Putin and Brexit all signs another world war is coming, page-5

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scientists have a special responsibility, once again to inform the public and to advise leaders about the perils that humanity faces,” he said. “As scientists we understand the dangers of nuclear weapons and their devastation effects, and we are learning how human activities and technologies are affecting climate systems in ways that may forever change life on Earth."

Yea right ??

*** The Manhattan Project was based at a 428,000-acre industrial complex in New Mexico; thousands of the West’s best scientists had worked on the project at one time or another. $2 billion had been spent – and no-one knew if the bomb would work, despite the input of some of the greatest scientific minds in the world. By mid-July, 1945, not even Robert Oppenheimer knew if ‘The Beast’ or ‘The Thing’ or ‘The Device’ (as the scientists variously nick-named the bomb) and he was the civilian leader of the project. Plutonium had not existed four years earlier and no-one was totally sure what reaction there would be when the bomb was detonated. There were varied opinions as to what might happen – some believed it would fail to explode. One scientist, the brilliant physicist Enrico Fermi, went to the other extreme and believed that it would set fire to the Earth’s atmosphere and create huge fires around the world.

Yet they... the Scientists pushed the button anyway !!


http://www.historylearningsite.co.u...cific-war-1941-to-1945/the-manhattan-project/