A Manhattan Project Veteran Reflects on His Atomic Bomb Work

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/nyregion/a-manhattan-project-veteran-reflects-on-his-atomic-bomb-work.html?smid=tw-nytimes

by wornoutman • 11 years ago

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Involute• 11 years ago

His commanding officer had heard that something called the Manhattan Project was looking for soldiers, and told him to apply.

“He knew I was a loudmouthed New Yorker,” said Dr. Bederson, who grew up in the Bronx. “He said, ‘Here’s your chance to get back to New York.’”

LMAO.

elektromekatron• 11 years ago

Fate is ever the comedian.

georgeoliver• 11 years ago

I've been reading Studs Terkel's The Good War, an oral history of WW2, and there are some incredible interviews with members of the Manhattan Project in it. At least at the beginning, they really thought Germany would beat them to the bomb.

WalterBright2• 11 years ago

A lot of people speculate on what would have happened if Hitler had not made so many disastrous military decisions. The simple truth is the US would have dropped the bomb on Berlin, and they would have lost anyway.

sgrove• 11 years ago

Who is "they", in this case?

steve19• 11 years ago

If Hitler that gotten the bomb first he could have dropped it on London and the war would have been over.

A Manhattan Project Veteran Reflects on His Atomic Bomb Work

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