In 1945, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico worked feverishly to complete the first atomic bomb. Meanwhile, their colleagues at the University of Chicago mounted a final, ultimately unsuccessful effort to prevent its use.
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The above article is Haaretz's lead editorial, as published in the Hebrew and English newspapers in Israel.
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