Short paper on the Manhatten Project college
topic: History of Science in the 20th Century
The scientists frantically worked on the Manhatten Project so that the world would not be overtaken by Germany's facist rulers. That was a moral decision on their part to keep something they valued - a more free world, one on which they wanted to live. That was their moral justification of the production of the bomb.
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