Slightly off topic:

I recall watching a documentation about how Einstein fled to the US and told the military about the ideas of an atomic bomb, because he feared that the Germans of the time would figure it out.
The Germans were defeated before the bomb was built, so Einstein and co protested about the continuation of the construction of the bomb, but then, the US had already committed a lot of resources into it, so they went ahead...

(This post was last modified: 06/08/2010 05:55 PM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)