This excerpt from Sime's book reads: Rather, it appears that she recoiled from putting her life's work to military use. Her refusal arose from a deep revulsion: "I will have nothing to do with a bomb!"

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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 17:02:42 UTC Robert McNees

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   Meitner's work on fission set off a chain of events which led to the Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb. She came to the US, but refused an offer to work at Los Alamos.

   “I will have nothing to do with a bomb!”

   Ref: Ruth Lewin Sime "Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics,” p. 305