The Szilard Anti-Nuke Petition (1945)
This Day (An America 250 History Show)
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The Morality of Science
There's a reckoning that's happening right at that time about science and ethics when it comes to eugenics which was embraced broadly by many scientists in the 1920s and 1930s. There were consequences for taking a step like this and sort of raising an alarm in this way so salar himself you know we should say he was a Hungarian born physicist. He wrote this memo kind of soon after witnessing a test bombing uh and then after the obviously the bombs are dropped.
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