alt Hacker NewsLots of people working on the Manhattan project did not know what they were working on. The core group of physicists did, but not many others.
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XorNot • yesterday at 6:27 AM
They knew the US was at war and they knew it was a government program for military purposes and they knew they were dealing nuclear materials.
A journalist not involved at all figured it out just fine, but at the very least it's not like it wasn't going to be a weapon.
Frankly though I wonder what the various judgemental people in these comments think about say, the tens of thousands of people who at the time were just straight up making artillery ammo.
I think you could get away with that excuse in 1945 when this whole system was first being created from scratch. It's been 80 years since then.