Wow, Einstein was such a great atheist. He created the atom bomb. Just great isn’t he?

Answer 1

Yes, Einstien was an atheist.

"Although Einstein stated he was religious and that he believed in God, it was in his own specialized sense that he used these terms. Many are aware that Einstein was not religious in the conventional sense, but it will come as a surprise to some to learn that Einstein clearly identified himself as an atheist and as an agnostic."

http://jeromekahn123.tripod.com/thinkersonreligion/id8.html

He wasn't the only scientist that worked on the atomic bomb. Fortunately, Einstein helped the United States develop the atomic bomb, which helped us get it before Japan or Germany, who were both working on it as well.

And no, he was not a Deist. He baecame an atheist at 12. Read his own words on the link above.

Answer 2

Wrong on several counts.

Einstein was not an atheist. He was a Humanist, which is quite a different thing. He can also be called a pantheist. No way was Einstein an atheist.

Einstein did not create the atom bomb. Nuclear weapons are the product of many minds, not just one. The splitting of the atom was first accomplished by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago. As to the wartime production of a bomb, this was accomplished at Los Alamos NM under the leadership of J. Robert Oppenheimer.

And whether or not building the bomb was a good or bad thing can be debated endlessly; it may well be that a land invasion of Japan would have been far more costly in human lives but we will never know for sure.

Answer 3

Einstein was a pacifist and believed in God "God does not play dice" was his famous retort to the idea of quantum uncertainty.

Einstein did not create the bomb. He calculated the equivalence of matter and energy with the most famous of all formulas E=MC^2 as a consequence of Special Relativity in 1905 - when neither world war had happened and Hitler was only 14 years old.

Like all scientists, they publish and share their work with other scientists - that's how discoveries are made.

The Manhattan Project that created Three nuclear devices (Trinity, Fatman, Littleboy) took Einstein's work and figured out a way to convert a little bit of matter into large amounts of energy in a really short period of time. That's how explosions work - large amounts of energy over a short period of time. They took Einstein's work and figured out a way to accomplish the conversion REALLY fast.

Einstein had nothing to do with the Manhattan Project. However, he did propose the idea to Roosevelt, an act he later regretted deeply.

Answer 4

Einstein theorized about it, Doctor Julius Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, Hans Bethe Enrico Fermi, and a whole team of other scientists created the "atom bomb" at Los Alamos and tested it at the Trinity site. It was a team effort headed by General Leslie Groves who also built the Pentagon, blessed by FDR and picked up and run off with by Truman and wildly applauded by the American citizens. So it's not just the fault of one person.

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Answer 5

Wow, are you that ignorant of the facts or what?
Einstein informed President Roosevelt that the Germans were on the verge of creating an atomic weapon. He urged Roosevelt to get there first. "Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future,'' Einstein wrote.
Einstein was a DEIST, not an atheist.
Your questions are always inflammatory and lack any kind of intelligent information in them.

Answer 6

The use of the atom bomb saved many lives, possibly even yours. If the idiots of the world learned how to behave themselves, there would be no use for weapons such as bombs. But until that occurs I am very happy they exist.

Answer 7

Einstein didn't create the atomic bomb, he came up with the theory that led to it. Im not an atheist, but the atomic bomb was a good thing. It saved millions of lives in Japan. Had we invaded with a ground force it would have been a lot more deaths than the atomic bombs caused.

Answer 8

Einstein didn't create the atom bomb.

Answer 9

He contributed to the development of the Atomic, bomb, yes. If you read one of his biographies, you would know that he was generally a pacifist, but wanted the United States to have the bomb before the Germans did.

Your point being...?

Answer 10

Actually he just found the math that allowed others to make it.

Atomic energy has good uses as well as bad ones. So it really isn't fair to blame the guys who did make it.