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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: carranza2 who wrote (124838)2/19/2004 5:59:03 PM
From: Bill Ulrich  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I'm not sure if that would've helped. Klaus Fuchs was already passing Manhattan Project material to the Soviets as early as 1942, a couple of years before the Rosenbergs became involved. I think the Soviets were destined to have it. A couple of the more "idealistic" scientists were determined to ensure the technology would not be owned by just one country. So, politically, it may have been the wise thing to do, but the American scientists were going to feed the Soviet scientists anyway. Post-WWII, as you suggest, was already too late.

The only foolproof course would have been to kill all the Manhattan Project scientists before the Manhattan Project got started. <yes, i'm kidding>

"The wise thing to have done was to utterly, ruthlessly and credibly destroyed the technology after using it in WWII, then instituted severe controls on the production of enriched material in atomic power plants because, face it, the first pro-life-[a]rators were the Rosenbergs."
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