Re:Where things stand with the Department of War
by SoftTalker on Thursday March 05, 2026 @09:44PM
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Lots of people working on the Manhattan project did not know what they were working on. The core group of physicists did, but not many others.
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Re:Where things stand with the Department of War
by moron4hire on Thursday March 05, 2026 @10:06PM
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I think you could get away with that excuse in 1945 when this whole system was first being created from scratch. It's been 80 years since then.
Re:Where things stand with the Department of War
by XorNot on Friday March 06, 2026 @01:27AM
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They knew the US was at war and they knew it was a government program for military purposes and they knew they were dealing nuclear materials.
A journalist not involved at all figured it out just fine, but at the very least it's not like it wasn't going to be a weapon.
Frankly though I wonder what the various judgemental people in these comments think about say, the tens of thousands of people who at the time were just straight up making artillery ammo.