The Doomsday Clock began ticking 75 years ago and was the brainchild of a Chicago artist.
Mike Moore, editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, carries the Doomsday Clock to its storage place at the University of Chicago on Dec. 5, 1995.
Leonard Rieser, chairman of the board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, moves the hand of the Doomsday Clock back to 17 minutes before midnight at offices near the University of Chicago on Nov. 26, 1991. “I’ve run into that attitude of politicians too often,” said Rosner, chairman of the committee that decides the long hand’s placement.
When a bomb was tested in 1945, its awesome power was revealed, and the Manhattan Project’s scientists wrestled with the thorny ethical issue of how it should be used. Decades afterward, Howard Gest, who had signed the petition, wondered what Truman thought of it. After extensive research, Gest, an Indiana University professor, concluded the petitions never reached Truman.
“Mr. President, I feel I have blood on my hands,” Oppenheimer said. That remark infuriated Truman, effectively ending the conversation. He told his staff he never wanted to see “that crybaby scientist"in his office ever again. Their exchange was reported in multiple books about whether the A-bomb should have been used.
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