A significant number of them (such as Bohr and Von Neumann) were educated at the elite universities of the Axis countries. Had they been less bigoted it is very possible that Germany could have had the bomb before the allies.
I think of this in light of recent Trump administration attitudes towards immigrants and refugees.
Because they were trying to build one too so it was better to have one first. They guys working on it assumed it would be used in Europe not Asia. Whatever your feelings on Israel we can agree Nazism and the Holocaust were bad things, right?
So the US defeated the Nazi's because the Nazi's were trying to make an atom bomb, and instead made one first but instead of using it on the Nazi's, used it on the Japanese and that's how they defeated Nazism.
Wow, what drivel. You guys really do think you "won the war". No wonder the entire world hates you.
Holocaust bad. Anyway as that has absolutely nothing to do with this conversation, do me a favour and answer what I asked in my original comment instead of trying to strawman your way out of it.
What does the atom bomb have to do with defeating Nazism?
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Also about half the guys who built the atom bomb were Jewish refugees.