ekka comments on Are you really in a race? The Cautionary Tales of Szilárd and Ellsberg

[ekka]

Thanks for writing this, I found it very insightful! I just watched ‘The Day After Trinity’ over the weekend and one thing that stood out to me was that once the machinery of the Manhattan program was in motion it seemed like there was no stopping it. Relevant section of Robert Wilson and Frank Oppenheimer talking about it

[HaydnBelfield]

Thanks! And thanks for this link. Very moving on their sense of powerlessness.