~Einstein's Remorse~Scientists Make, Politicians Use③A-bomb Hiroshima Dr.Soko DAY31 /50

Einstein had not participated in the Manhattan Project from the beginning, because his political attitude made it difficult to maintain confidentiality. 

Ten years after the atomic bomb was dropped, Einstein died in 1955. 

Biochemist Linus Pauling revealed at a memorial service the words about regret that Einstein said in his later years.

"I made one great mistake in my life, when I signed a letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made."

Einstein was asked to cooperate with Sizlard and sent a letter to the President with his recommendation on the development of nuclear weapons. 

What do you think that  Jewish scientists including Einstein had feeling then? They lost their friends and family by the Nazis. They may have had a desire to contribute to America, who has accepted asylum. They may have had the desire as a scientist to be involved in the great study of a huge energy source from the uranium nuclear chain reaction.

Scientists as Soldiers

Even if the motivation as a pure scientist was first involved, at the moment when the military and the government understood that the technology was actually available as a new type of weapon, the scientist was no longer a scientist, they were working as a soldier who only receiving an order.It was too late that the scientists noticed so.

The motivation to use the new type weapon had driven recklessly. Maybe no one can stop the desire to use it for the first time of the world.

 Needless to say, they were same humans. The scientists who made the weapon, the politicians who used it, and the citizens who were bombed, they were all the  same human-beings who had a family. 

My Opinion as a doctor :                                                                 Scientists including doctors need to recognize. In the war,  even if you may be treated as a specialist,  you are just one of soldiers　receiving orders for politicians.