Oppenheimer
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Importance of Disarmament
Many of the men involved in Manhattan Project became either campaigners for disarmament or certainly arms control. How did he end up feeling into the 40s and 50s as you saw the massively increasing power of these weapons that he'd done so much to bring about? He was conflicted even throughout the project. He continually expressed fears about what it might do, but definitely after the war, he very, very quickly turned towards arguing against the further development of the weapons. So later that summer, in August, two nuclear bombs were dropped. More than 200,000 people killed.
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