Comment by pjc50
8 hours ago
If the nuclear power or life sciences people were putting out press releases saying "our product may kill us all", they'd be dragged into endless Congressional inquiries.
8 hours ago
If the nuclear power or life sciences people were putting out press releases saying "our product may kill us all", they'd be dragged into endless Congressional inquiries.
Wasnt the Oppenheimer story basically that?
There was https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2019/09/12/the_fear_th... , but that was (validly) dismissed by other scientists working on it, and also wasn't a discussion that was happening in public because the entire program was secret.
"This will kill a lot of (other) people" was explicit in the building of the bomb, but then so was the entire war effort.