Nuclear Weapons Make Rulers of States That Possess Them Hitlers
Waiting to Happen As everyone knows, the United States initiated
its nuclear-weapons program in response to Nazi Germany's.
Though getting off to a strong start, just like the U.S.
Manhattan Project, it may have become dispersed over too many
departments. As well, nuclear physicists were skimmed off by the
Wehrmacht's draft; others were Jews who fled Germany. In The
Diminishing Justice and Utility of Nuclear Deterrence, his
contribution to Thinking About Strategy, A Tribute to Sir
Michael Quinlan, George Perkovich of the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace addresses Adolf Hitler's position as a
driving force in the development of nuclear weapons. (Michael
Quinlan served in the British government and was an academic and
writer who believed in both nuclear weapons as well as just war
and eventual disarmament.) We often forget or just take for
granted that the origins of nuclear weapons lie, in large part,
with Hitler. To this day he remains