"J G Miller" wrote in message
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All because of the perceived need to produce weapons of mutual
annihilation.

While most of this pollution happened during the cold war, the place was
originally built to deal with Japan and Germany. In that was, the perceived
need was to build weapons of asymmetrical annihilation before the other guys
did.

In the judgment of history, Einstein vastly underestimated the morality of
the atomic scientists that remained in Germany or at least their ability to
resist Hitler. I don't think that anybody in the west had much of a clue
about what the atomic scientists of Japan could do.