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Morley on Bomb
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Felix Morley reports that although officials have portrayed the development of the atomic bomb as “eminently laudable,” the general reaction to news of the atomic bomb has been “unconcealed horror.” Published in Human Events on August 29, 1945, these excerpts from Morley’s essay “The Return to Nothingness” show the author’s apprehensions over the atomic bomb and its impact on humanity.

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The Report of the Committee on Political and Social Problems, Manhattan Project, University of Chicago, June 11, 1945
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The Report of the Committee on Political and Social Problems, Manhattan Project, University of Chicago, June 11, 1945
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As the U.S. drew up plans to drop the first atomic bomb in 1945, a group of scientists at the University of Chicago prepared a report arguing against the use of the bomb. Headed by James Franck and made up of notable scientists such as Leo Szilard and Glenn Seaborg, a Nobel laureate, the group released this report.

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