344. Oppenheimer: The Witch Hunt

[@revolutionaryhamburger]

My grandfather was on a ship headed to Japan for the invasion when the bombs were dropped. He had already spent four years in Europe as an artillery officer. He had had enough of war by then so he was happy he didn’t die on a Japanese beach.

[@AK-lb3cb]

Love how ‘little man’ is one of the few societally acceptable insults/ prejudices allowed

[@Ken-pi7qk]

and “middle aged white man”

[@edolboyy]

Excellent conversation, thank you 🙏🏼

[@CL-we8tn]

Seconded

[@williambranch4283]

I would have cut Oppie's security clearance in Jan 1946, on principle ... privately.

[@Time_Is_Left]

He didn’t abandon strangling and erotic poetry, he just kept quiet about it. Why do you think the Mrs. drank so? 🙃😂

[@quinnbeelen2077]

I've been listening to this as background noise while (in the videogame Project zomboid) killing hundreds of zombies in the rosewood prison. Great background noises! thank you!

[@sasqcornell8682]

Wow. Great series boys.

[@CL-we8tn]

Better than I thought it would be, bravo boys, done well

[@williambranch4283]

My logic professor in college was a Manhatten Project veteran. He left physics because of the moral issue.

[@ComedyJakob]

Of course Oppenheimer would have felt better if the Japanese had been killed by fire bombs or Soviet bayonets, it wouldn't have been his fault, but I doubt it would have made much difference to the dead.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

Heh????

[@gosiachaaban2484]

I am not surprised about fear of communism in the west and I'm so annoyed when children at school are only taught about red scare and treatment of communists in the USA with no comparison to what was happening at the same time in the Eastern bloc, the atrocities there.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

False equivalence and whataboutism bullshit! Two wrongs dont make a right, you never been told that before? Christ, some people! Small wonder trump got elected!

[@shamsam4]

Yeah, they were actually trying to take over the world. Maybe they still are.

[@chickenfishhybrid44]

​@@carlossaraiva8213defensive are we? Why would you have such a problem with people being taught about the horrors that were going on in the early Soviet Union and the Red Scare? Now that the USSR has collapsed, its easy for people to look back at the Red Scare and it's excesses and pretend like there was never anything to be worried about which is total nonsense.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

@@chickenfishhybrid44 Are you being dense on purpose? Defensive about the USSR?? Defenbsive about an authoritarian regime? You mistake me for a MAGA voting republican, sir. I report for things as they were.

[@adrianseanheidmann4559]

"I am not surprised about fear of communism in the west" What do you mean by "in the west - at school"? Do you really think this topic is discussed appropritately, adequately in any sense?

[@donmorris6047]

A very great man, very much misunderstood

[@williambranch4283]

LeMay (USAF) and von Neumann (Computers) wanted a nuclear first strike on the USSR.