Imagining a ‘Jewish atom bomb’, constructing a scientific diaspora

this article explores how Dr Chaim Weizmann, a prominent chemist and a Zionist leader, attempted to construct and mobilize a ‘scientific diaspora’. Empirically, the article draws on new archival evidence, revealing the hitherto unknown early efforts of the Zionist movement to acquire nuclear reactor and utilize the Jewish involvement in the American nuclear project for political leverage abroad...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03063127221077313

 

Smoking Gun! No Nuclear Bombs Were Dropped on Japan

Smoking Gun! No Nuclear Bombs Were Dropped on Japan: Scientific leaders of the Manhattan Project. Left to right: Ernest O. Lawrence, Arthur H. Compton, Vannevar Bush, James B. Conant, Karl T. Compton, and Alfred L. Loomis. Secret