a rosenberg case question?

Question

why do u think the rosenbergs were guilty? explain.

sorry, wrong question, i meant:
do u think the rosenbergs were guilty?

Answer 1

The Rosenbergs were indeed guilty. Julius Rosenberg it has been proven by historians to have given Atomic secrets to the Soviets. Ethel Rosenberg (his wife) is the case of what is still sometimes debated. Most think that she was simply a bystander who while aware of what was going on, did nothing to aid or hinder her husband.

Yes, they were guilty in my opinion. Should they have been executed? The convicting jude told them that he considers their crime to have been worse than murder. Was it? In Hindsight, obviously not given the fact that The Soviet Union never dropped a Nuclear Weapon on the U.S. Is it the fault of the Rosenbergs that the Soviets got nuclear weapons? No, not really. They would have developed Nuclear weapons no matter what, it's just a matter of when. The Rosenbergs probably gave them a few years, tops (although people at the time said it would take the Soviets another decade and a half to gain nuclear weapons... that's just simply not true). So in hindsight, their crime does not seem to have done any apperant harm except freaking out the U.S. to the extreme. (1949 was a bad year for us. The Soviets tested their first bomb and China became communist). Hindsight is however, 20/20. What if the Soviet's had dropped a bomb on us the minute they had the capability? Probably wouldn't have happened, they were well aware we had the capabilities to hit them back even harder.

Anyways, their crime in my oppinion was bad, although probably not worse than murder as their convicting judge stated. They certainly deserved to be locked away. The Soviets were obviously our enemy by this time. Whether or not they should have been executed depends on your own opinion.

Answer 2

No historians doubt they sold secrets to the U.S.S.R. That is a proven fact. The only issue to be debated was were the Russians our enemy at that time. According to the definition of "treason' it mas to be aiding or abedding the enemy, and in the late 1940s the U.S.S.R. did not yet have atomic weapons (which they won't until September 23, 1949) and the Cold War was not actually underway in full force. Many historians debate whether the Rosenbergs sold secrets to our ENEMY or to our ally (as they had been in World War II.)


And THAT is the debatable point.

Answer 3

At the time, I didn't think they were guilty of a "Capital Offence". I remember their execution coincided with my first visit to my aunt's in Boston and I was politely told not to bring the subject up. As "Steve-O" pointed out , it probably kept the US,(the only nation to use Atomic weapons, from repeating that act.) It's always good to have a balance of power. ( A ying& yang as it were) . We don't at the moment and lookat the mess the world is in. I apologize if I misread your statement Steve.

Answer 4

i think Julius was, but not Ethel.

there are some prooves that julius was infact giving information to the soviets, but not on ethel.

also even if they were i think soviets had information from their own spys, and soviets could lie and might not gave up the true story on it after it fell.