# The scientists who invented the nuclear bomb were worse than Adolf Hitler **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 4, 2008, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-scientists-who-invented-the-nuclear-bomb-were-worse-than-adolf-hitler/461924 "2008-09-04T02:07:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2008, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-scientists-who-invented-the-nuclear-bomb-were-worse-than-adolf-hitler/461924/17 "2008-09-04T05:55:51Z")
> [@](#): > > It is my opinion that Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Albert Einstein and all of the other scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project and developed atomic weapons are worse than Adolf Hitler, and if there is a hell, they are burning at least a few hundred degrees hotter than the Nazis. It is my opinion that you have never read a book on the Manhattan Project, the war in the Pacific, the invasion of Okinawa, a general history of World War II, the Nazi atomic bomb projects, biographies of any of the men you mention, or that you even particularly believe what you said. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-scientists-who-invented-the-nuclear-bomb-were-worse-than-adolf-hitler/461924)._