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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 8 years ago

Did Einstein invent atom bomb?

Gosh, He used to be my fav. But my classmate just pointed out that he was the one who not only came up with the idea of nuclear bomb, but also first gave it to Hitler. Hitler, in his manic state, couldn't realize it's benefit or didn't believe in him. Whatever, so he came here and gave us that and we blew those poor Japanese civilians to win the war.

Is all this true? How could that be? I mean wasn't he the one concerned about vanishing bees and predicted that if all the bees vanish, human race won't survive on Earth for long?

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  • 8 years ago
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    The developments that led to the creation of two atomic bombs was already occurring in the 1930s. What Albert Einstein did was go to Winston Churchill in Britain and tell him that it is possible to make an atomic bomb and he fears Germany might already be doing so.

    Therefore, he did not invent it, give it to Hitler, or is responsible for the civilian losses in Japan. Einstein was merely aware of the developments and it seems he tried to help Britain, not Germany, Anyways, it would be America that produced the bombs, not Britain.

    Source(s): WWII university class
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    4 years ago

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  • 7 years ago

    You have to really weight a lot of the consequences here. Einstein and his group of fellow scientists very much realized that german scientists were fastidiously working on trying to split the atom and create a chain reaction (a bomb). If Hitler got his hands on such a weapon, the world would have never been the same as it is now. Einstein never had any direct connection with Hitler and moved to the US in 1933, well before German attacked Poland (6 years in fact). He actually left Germany because Hitler became Chancellor and Einstein being Jewish didn't see much future there. So your friend is WAY off on almost everything. Einstein was also a pacifist but also a realist. The war would have gone on many more years with Japan as the Japanese revered their Emperor as a God and would gladly die in his honor (as we saw with the kamikaze's). The US military experts predicted that to end the war with Japan a full frontal attack of Japan would be mandatory and would cost anywhere from half a million to a million American lives. As well, two other points of matter, Einstein only worked on the project for 2 days helping seperate fission, on a project that lasted years. As well, he was also very well aware (and feared) that such a technological advancement would lead to an arms race after the war ended, which as we know, it did. Einsteain made only a few quotes after the bombs were dropped on Japan, one being that he felt that Roosevelt would have never resorted to the bombs, and this famous one, "I have always condemned the use of the atomic bomb against Japan." And later this one just before his death, ""I made one great mistake in my life... when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification - the danger that the Germans would make them."

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    5 years ago

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    Einstein did not invent the atomic bomb, he merely realized, based on the physics of the time, that it was possible. Others, including Leo Szilard, Enrico Fermi and Niels Bohr are more directly responsible for building the atomic bomb. You have to remember that at the time, it was feared the Nazis also had physicists working on the bomb. In fact, they only did a few early "heavy water" experiments, then became convinced it wouldn't work. But we didn't know that during World War Two.

  • 5 years ago

    NO,he did not invent the atomic bomb,his ideas and equation of energy (E=MC2) is what gave the other physysts the knowledge of the atomic bomb as they were aware at this point that a huge amount of energy could be produced from a very small mass however this was not einstein s intention.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    No.

    The area of physics that splitting the atom required (quantum mechanics) was different than the things Einstein was working on. In fact, Einstein wasn't a big fan of quantum mechanics. He believed things didn't happen randomly.

    Enrico Fermi was the theoretical physicst behind the program. Einstein did help by using his name to convince Roosevelt to start the Manhatten project. He may have consulted some but wasn't involved in the day to day work.

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  • 8 years ago

    No, he did not. Einstein had no involvement with the Manhattan Project, the group of people that did invent the a bomb.

    His contributions to physics and quantum mechanics were part of the corpus of knowledge that was used to develop the bomb.

    He also wrote to the president of the united states warning him that Germany was attempting to develop atomic weapons and advising America to do the same. This was one of the factors that resulted in the start of the Manhattan project.

    At the time a German victory in WW2 was a possible outcome, and Einstein honestly thought America would need to develop atomic weapons first to win the war.

    He described that letter as his one true regret after what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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