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2. Sir Joseph Rotblat was the only scientist to leave the Manhattan Project

Fri Jul 16, 2021, 09:14 PM

Jul 2021

when it became clear that Germany would not succeed in making the atomic bomb, and Japan was on the verge of being defeated without it being needed there.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1995/rotblat/facts/

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