: Quadibloc <jsavard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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: Einstein certainly didn't do the work of creating the atomic bomb,
: thus he doesn't deserve all the credit for it, but since his
: contribution, symbolic though it may have been, was still quite
: possibly a _sine qua non_ for its development, I suppose that one
: could argue that, if the atomic bomb was a bad thing, it placed a
: burden on his karma, as well as that of others.
I don't think whether it's a good or bad thing is at issue.
At issue is (more or less) would it have been built without Einstein.
I don't have much doubt that it would have been.
One can argue that his letter was *advocacy* of the actual program, and
then he might bear some responsibility. But that's still not "Einstein
was responsible", that's closer to "Einstein has some small iota of a
scintilla of a dustmote of the total responsibility".
Wayne Throop throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://sheol.org/throopw
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