Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppenheimer?

Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by coldtea on Friday July 21, 2023 @08:41AM (#36813112)

Only way back, when the US had the "Great Depression" and millions of starving people as well.

And in the USSRs case, it was from an ecomony that had just had gotten into large scale industrial production, after having been way behind under the Czars, and after a major war, a revolution, and several years of civil war.

If anything, they did better than expected. Even more so given that they had an inexperienced government, external pressure from unfriendly western countries, and had to prepare for future wars that were already breeding (and luckily the did it just in time for WWII).

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by bitcurious on Friday July 21, 2023 @09:45AM (#36813663)

> Only way back, when the US had the "Great Depression" and millions of starving people as well.

The US had millions of hungry people. At the peak of the Great Depression, deaths from starvation peaked at a (still terrible) ~110k. Under Soviet rule, an order of magnitude more, actually millions, perished unnecessarily from hunger just in Ukraine.

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-ushistory2os2xmaster/...

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by coldtea on Friday July 21, 2023 @10:33AM (#36814265)

In much worse conditions, with much worse winters, and from a much worse starting point, in a much more under-industrialized society.

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