Jimble-Jamble: Destroyers of Worlds

Oppenheimer, the other "Father of the Atomic Bomb," and the ethics of creation

Last summer, when I was doing a lot of drudge work in my library job, I took the time to listen to the BBC’s radio docudrama The Bomb¹, which is an account of one man’s attempts to, at first, get the atomic bomb made, and later, his attempts to get the US Government to commit to not using it. The man, Leo Szilard, plays only a brief part in Christopher N…