Part of me questions the ethics of taking money as an employee to build something dangerous, and at the same time seeking protections to speak about it. If truly concerned why still work there?
Maybe not as instantly catastrophic and detrimental but all their efforts have “we had to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki without a warning as the tech and power was too cool” vibes.
I doubt a warning would have changed the moral calculus anyway (it's dubious that the warning would result in a civilian evacuation), but given the war mentality at the time it would have been asking quite a lot from the guys fighting. This was a war in which guys were collecting skulls as trophies, well into a "not in the mood to take prisoners" mentality, in a "not surrendering after your capitol city is firebombed for two hours, killing 100 thousand" mentality. Given this context, expecting one side to warn another about an impending air raid just doesn't seem realistic.
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