Talk:Lyman James Briggs

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I haven't seen any explaination about why Lyman Briggs was dragging his feet on the Uranium Committee, but I would think that perhaps this is what

If I were Roosevelt I might have wanted to keep my options open and not start a large scale uranium project with England until it were clearly necessary. When Lyman Briggs locked the MAUD report in his safe, he may have been doing exactly what Roosevelt wanted him to do.

--Prmacn 21:27, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

In 1940 & 1941 all Churchill wanted to do was for Britain to survive the war, and for him to survive in government. Britain was fighting alone. (The Soviet Union did not enter the war until June 1941 and the USA not until December 1941.) Ruling the world was an unlikely ambition at that stage. All in all the paragraphs by Prmacn are not a cogent explanation why Roosevelt would want to deny himself the most powerful weapon imaginable. JMcC 08:23, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps, but doesn't it seem inappropriate to enter a value judgment such as "his undistinguished role" in the leading paragraph? The leading paragraph should be factual and uncontroversial. --Prmacn (talk) 01:13, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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