27 de setembro de 2008

Nanotechnology: The Weapon of the Future

By Lev Navrozov
Let us suppose that in 1933, when Hitler came to power, the United States didn't have a single soldier or a single weapon. In 1933, Einstein and his family were living outside Germany and he came to the United States, biding time, when there was an anti-Semitic looting in Germany, but The New York Times printed the statements of members of the newly formed Nazi government who condemned the looting and promised law and order. Einstein was inclined to return to Germany, but their home was also looted. So he stayed in the United States. In an Aug. 2, 1939 letter to President Roosevelt about the possibility of development of nuclear weapons, Einstein mentioned "Joliot in France." Joliot was married to a daughter of Marie Curie, who had received for her "work on radioactivity" two Nobel prizes — in 1903 and 1911! With the help of Einstein and other émigré scientists, nuclear weapons could perhaps have been developed in the United States not between 1939 and 1945, but between 1934 and 1940, and Germany would have accepted unconditional surrender as did Japan in 1945.

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