No more than the Wright brothers were responsible for it.
2006-11-29 17:30:51
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answer #1
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answered by Gaspode 7
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Einstein was absolutely not responsible for the destruction at HiroSHIma and Nagasaki. The only part that Einstein had to play in the development of the atomic bomb was simply a tip-off to FDR, stating that the Germans had the capabilities to make a WMD, as we have become to know them. This, in turn, sent FDR to start the Manhattan project which created the bomb. Einstein had no part in this project, but was headed by J. Robert Oppenheimer, along with a large team of America's greatest Physics experts. They assembled in Los Alamos, New Mexico, all the while, Einstein remained in Princeton, New Jersey.
2006-11-29 17:34:08
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answered by Anonymous
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This question is absurd simply because it gives the impression that somehow Einstein was involved in weapon making and the decision to drop 2 bombs in H. and N.,during August 6 and 9,1945, in Japan.Even if we grant some nebulouus legitimacy to this question by occluding our embarrasment,it does not make any sense to posit any relationship between the theory of relativity with the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was a political decision and Einsein had nothing to do with decision making at the political level.If at all, were we to consider Einstein as a political person, then he clearly emerges as a strong advocate of peace, not war.
2006-12-06 10:16:25
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answered by debussyyee 3
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Einstein cannot be held responsible for the destruction of hiroshima and nagasaki and all those radiation victims in the world around where clandestine nuclear testing by their own governments are happening. Great scientists canot be blamed for the way great scientific innovations are put to use by the rest of the mankind and especially those in power.......
2006-11-30 17:16:54
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answered by pravkas 2
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Einstein was not directly involved in the Manhattan Project (although he initially supported it) and neither was he the guy who decided to drop the bomb (look for Pres. Truman).
While his work on quantum physics (in which he didn't really believe in) was very helpful in opening the field of atomic theory, guys like Enrico Fermi, Oppenheimer and Fennyman created the real framework behind the bomb.
Bottom line is that Einstein was as reponsible for Hiroshima and Nagasaki as Issac Newton.
2006-11-29 17:32:48
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answered by Historygeek 4
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It is unfair to blame Einstein. It was evil design of Americans to become world leader resorted to destruction of those two cities. They had in mind even before second world war to create a unipolar world under their domination. They realised Japan has the capacity of to become a world leader in resources and also military strength. Though by that time Japan was defeated and worstly affected, to made it as its subject USA resorted to the attack. If their intention was only to put an end to second world war, they should attack Germany or France, which were still powerful.
2006-12-06 02:49:50
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answered by naren 3
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Huh Huh Huh----now sit down & think of what Morality is ultimately! i ask your self whilst they say,"IN conflict & Love, there is not any longer something incorrect or UNFAIR!" i've got long previous by 13 or 15/sixteen solutions above and too taken aback to work out, optimal solutions went in choose of that gruesome & Nasty order of bombing & humorous factor is this they have been a sort of 'stressful' for human beings! (some secure jap additionally to 'enhance' their justifications! One answerer, Kissomaru, replied suited & i desire his answer would be the superb. Then yet another, Guitar...published large with justification. To me it exchange into never morally impressive doing. conflict is conflict, i understand, yet their could be some ethics whilst the conflict occurs between human beings, no longer between animals. it can not be a so-observed as 'ethical' order to KILL tens of millions innocents to stop a conflict! besides, ATOM exchange into no longer invented for destruction! purely the Devils or Evil spirits use 'solid' factor as 'undesirable'. forget the killings of the tens of millions, what's happening now? nonetheless infants are born disabled, blind, deaf or dumb----purely through after-results of that gruesome bombing! for the reason which you asked this question here in an open web site, so which you will get solutions "morally" impressive & incorrect. some human beings combination up their "angers with morality" without understanding the then historical past. it particularly is stunning & it particularly is why WARS besides as bombing are here nonetheless! disgrace!
2016-10-04 13:23:28
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answered by ? 4
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Henry Ford was the first to mass produce an affordable automobile. Every year over 40,000 Americans DIE in automobile accidents (and hundreds of thousands are injured and maimed). Is Henry Ford responsible?
2006-11-29 17:38:57
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answered by Doctor J 7
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I won't comment because I don't know, but you can read Einsteins letter to President Roosevelt in the link below and make up your own mind.
2006-11-29 17:34:49
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answered by Anonymous
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No, while Einstein discovered the technology. He didn't like the way the power he harnessed was used. He greatly opposed the atom bomb. It was President Truman that gave the order to obliterate Japan.
2006-11-29 17:42:24
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answered by sonkysst 4
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No, it was the decision of someone else to make a destructive use of what he proposed in his General Theory Of Relativity.
2006-11-29 17:37:14
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answered by sushrut 2
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