Memo to basic scientists :
General Leslie Groves doesn't deserve your bad press, for the same reason that Vannevar Bush doesn't deserve your good press.
It was Bush, the head of the wartime OSRD (and reputed to be the most powerful un-elected man in Washington) who carved in stone America's selfish postwar determination to keep the atomic bomb and atomic energy a secret American monopoly -- General Groves was merely following Bush's orders.
I repeat - it was a scientist, one of your own, who carried on the old Republicans' policy of selfish Isolationism (albeit in a new guise).
God's America was now to become the avenging angel , reigning with an atomic fist over a fallen world.
But selfish isolationism - not just in America but throughout Europe and Asia - is what had just allowed relatively small and poor nations like Japan and Germany to pick off their dis-united neighbours, one by one by one by one .
Just as Emperor Haile Selassie had said they would at his very famous - and very ignored - speech June 1936 at the League of Nations ... as that session voted to do nothing concrete to get Italy to stop invading Ethiopia.
America's 1945 decision to 'go it alone' meant that intellectually and morally WWII had all been fought for nought : it was as if the ghosts of Hitler, Mussolini , Tojo and Chamberlain were coming back in resplendent triumph....
General Leslie Groves doesn't deserve your bad press, for the same reason that Vannevar Bush doesn't deserve your good press.
It was Bush, the head of the wartime OSRD (and reputed to be the most powerful un-elected man in Washington) who carved in stone America's selfish postwar determination to keep the atomic bomb and atomic energy a secret American monopoly -- General Groves was merely following Bush's orders.
I repeat - it was a scientist, one of your own, who carried on the old Republicans' policy of selfish Isolationism (albeit in a new guise).
God's America was now to become the avenging angel , reigning with an atomic fist over a fallen world.
But selfish isolationism - not just in America but throughout Europe and Asia - is what had just allowed relatively small and poor nations like Japan and Germany to pick off their dis-united neighbours, one by one by one by one .
Just as Emperor Haile Selassie had said they would at his very famous - and very ignored - speech June 1936 at the League of Nations ... as that session voted to do nothing concrete to get Italy to stop invading Ethiopia.
America's 1945 decision to 'go it alone' meant that intellectually and morally WWII had all been fought for nought : it was as if the ghosts of Hitler, Mussolini , Tojo and Chamberlain were coming back in resplendent triumph....
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