How did Albert Einstein feel about the atomic bomb?

Answer 1

Nope!!! I may say that he didn't really want to use the formula E=MC (related to atomic bombs and the fusion and fission of the molecules). He advised the President of the US to use the atomic bombs int its proper uses. For short, he was not involved in the making of atomic bombs as well as supporting the dropping of those bombs in Japan...

It was His theory of relativity (E=MC2) that was used in the creation of the atomic bombs. He was greatly against using them in such a horrible way.

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Einstein had no idea that atomic bombs had even really been worked on by the US until he read the newspaper headlines on August 6, 1945 announcing that one had been dropped on Hiroshima! He had spent all of WW2 working on the equations for his Unified Field Theory. He never advised either president Roosevelt or Truman on the use and any weapon, let alone atomic bombs.

Answer 2

Einstein was a pacifist and thus against all war. But he was also wise enough to see the horrible consequences to civilization should the Nazis build and use nuclear weapons! Thus when approached by Leo Silard with a letter to FDR recommending research on the bomb, he willingly signed it. Thus Einstein supported development, although I am sure he hoped they would never need to be used.

Answer 3

Many people believe that Einstein's theories led to the creation of the atomic bomb, or that he even went as far as creating the atomic bomb, (believe me I've heard people say that!) The truth however, is that he barely had anything to do with the creation of the atomic bomb. During World War II, many scientists recognized the danger of Germany developing an atomic bomb based on newly discovered nuclear fission. In 1939, Leo Szilard, a Hungarian, Jewish physicist, tried to convince the current U.S. president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to establish a campaign to counter Germany's attempts with their own atomic bomb. He failed to get the government's attention and so went to the well known Einstein to write a letter urging for a nuclear weapon. They worked together writing the letter and Einstein signed it. On October 11, 1939 an adviser of the president's delivered the letter and convinced the president. By 1942, the Manhattan project was started in pursuit of the creation of a nuclear weapon. By 1945 that goal was reached and the bombs were tested on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The only connection between Einstein and the atomic bomb is his signature on the letter to President Roosevelt, and a few instances when he helped the U.S. Navy with some theoretical questions. Apparently, Einstein regretted ever approving the manufacture of a nuclear weapon, claiming it only led to an attempted monopoly.

Answer 4

No. Although Einstein helped develop the atomic bomb he was opposed to its use after he figure out how destructive it would be. Conventional bombing of Japan was planned by military leaders among whom Einstein had no say.

Answer 5

Well, Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of efforts in Nazi Germany to purify uranium-235, which could be used to build an atomic bomb. Now the United States had to make them before the Nazis did and they did. Beside that, Einstein didn't do anything else.

In 1903 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Pierre Curie, Marie Curie and Henri Becquerel the Nobel Prize in Physics, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel. Marie herself coined the term radioactivity.

Answer 6

Einstein did NOT want to use atomic power to bomb Japanese cities! He wrote of feeling sad and regretful of his part in developing the physics that led to the creation of the A-Bomb and the H-Bomb.

Answer 7

he did not want to see the mass deaths that would result and also he was working on a nuclear bomb that would be more effective.

Answer 8

very bad