![]() ![]() The french also helped newly independent Israel. Ben-Gurion recruited many Jewish scientists with the explicit goal of ensuring something like the holocaust never happened again. He helped Israel as he was concerned about Egyptian-Russian relations and securing the position of the only Jewish majority state in the world in the wake of the largest industrialized genocide. He met with Weizmann in 47 and Ben-Gurion in 52, literally just after the holocaust. ![]() Although Oppenheimer is said to have been ashamed of his Jewishness and tried to hide it, he still was a supporter of Israel and of course this meant helping their nuclear program. I imagine they made numerous visits to Israel because they were Jewish, just as Einstein did. Those old physics people and their kin, plus paranoids and vegans. and what a WEIRD collection of humanity were in the audience. It was so appropriate, had to repeat that here. Someone challenged him in some polite and meaningful way in a question, and just as he was starting to reply, people were getting uncomfortable due to the excessive air conditioning in the room - it was hot outside but apparently the air conditioner was ON with a sensor not in the room? Someone went to check on the air conditioning exactly when the guy said "The USA has NEVER FAILED to achieve a stated objective in nuclear deterrance" or something similar, when the guy from the audience checking the thermostat said helplessly "its stuck ON, there is nothing I can do!" A large, confident bearded man, he "commanded" the podium with ever more tales, speaking like that paragraph above. ![]() One of the talks was given by an actual nuclear weapons designer, who rarely stands in public for obvious reasons. During the Fukishima aftermath here in the USA, a series of talks was called at UC Berkeley with the public invited. That's very grandiose and all, but this story is true. ![]()
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