Common people thought nuclear weapons not dangerous? When was that?

arisAlexis · on June 11, 2023

Many of the academics and physicists (aka software developer in this example) thought nukes are impossible. Look it up)

defrost · on June 11, 2023

US physicists largely thought they were infeasible, sure.

They were focused on power generation.

But the bulk of world physicists ( the MAUD committee et el ) thought they were feasible to construct and the Australian Oliphant convinced the US crowd of that.