On Apr 13, 10:15=A0pm, Quadibloc <jsav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 12, 11:33 pm, thro...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Wayne Throop) wrote:
>
> > No, not that either. =A0Signing a letter stating that it was possible
is=
not
> > "responsibility for".
>
> Einstein's prestige, when added to the letter drafted by Leo Szilard,
> certainly did help that letter get attention, and it did lead to the
> government making serious efforts towards developing the atomic bomb
> at an earlier time than would have happened otherwise.
>
> Note, as well, that the atomic bomb still had not yet become available
> by the time Germany was defeated. Thus, had it not been for the letter
> signed by Einstein, unless the dogged resistance of the Japanese
> indeed caused the war in that theater to drag on indefinitely, it
> might well not have been ready in time for the war. This could have
> led to efforts to create it being abandoned once it was no longer
> needed.
>
> 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,
Karma? More science fiction?? Don't tell me you guys believe in
Karma??
There's no proof that Karma or inevitable consequence exist.
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