Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 50 of
50
with 100 triples per page.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal abstract "\"My Trial as a War Criminal\" is a 1949 short story by atomic physicist Leo Szilard.Szilard had played a leading role in the Manhattan Project, and in the story he imagines the kind of show trial he might have had if he had been prosecuted in a manner similar to the Nuremberg Trials.Szilard drafted the letter Albert Einstein signed, to Franklin Roosevelt, suggesting the US develop the military uses of nuclear power.The story is set after World War II, shortly after the United States surrendered to the Soviet Union following a sneak attack using germ warfare.Szilard is offered a choice: He can volunteer to work on scientific projects in the Soviet Union, or he can remain in the United States, and stand trial as a war criminal for his role in the development and use of the first atomic bombs during the Second World War.Szilard chooses to stand trial. During his trial the record of his opposition to dropping the atomic bomb on civilian targets is dismissed, on the grounds that he had drafted classified documents where he may have taken the opposite position, and he is convicted.Szilard is allowed to attend the trials of United States President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, and the Secretary of State. Truman's attorney tries to argue that Truman's order for the use of atomic bombs on Japan was no more of a war crime than the Soviet use of biological weapons that led to the American surrender had been. Truman's tribunal convicts him of a violation of laws and customs of war, because, prior to 1945, it had not been customary to drop atomic bombs on cities.When the story was published in the 1961 edition of Szilard's collection, The Voice of the Dolphins, and Other Stories, the book stated that the story was required reading for students at Harvard Law School.According to William Lanouettespeaking at the World Science Forum, in Budapest, in 2005a Russian language translation of Szilard's story played a key role in Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov's objections to the Soviet nuclear weapons program.".
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageID "21690487".
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageLength "4895".
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageOutDegree "30".
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageRevisionID "491926999".
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Albert_Einstein.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Andrei_Sakharov.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Biological_warfare.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Budapest.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Category:1949_short_stories.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Category:American_short_stories.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Franklin_D._Roosevelt.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Harry_S._Truman.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Harvard_Law_School.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Henry_L._Stimson.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Japan.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Law_of_war.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Leo_Szilard.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Manhattan_Project.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Nuclear_power.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Nuclear_weapon.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Nuremberg_trials.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Physicist.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink President_of_the_United_States.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Russian_language.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Show_trial.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink Soviet_Union.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink The_Voice_of_the_Dolphins,_and_Other_Stories.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Secretary_of_State.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Secretary_of_War.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink War_crime.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink William_Lanouette.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink World_Science_Forum.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wikiPageWikiLinkText "My Trial as a War Criminal".
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal subject Category:1949_short_stories.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal subject Category:American_short_stories.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal hypernym Story.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal type Work.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal type WrittenWork.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal type Redirect.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal type Work.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal comment "\"My Trial as a War Criminal\" is a 1949 short story by atomic physicist Leo Szilard.Szilard had played a leading role in the Manhattan Project, and in the story he imagines the kind of show trial he might have had if he had been prosecuted in a manner similar to the Nuremberg Trials.Szilard drafted the letter Albert Einstein signed, to Franklin Roosevelt, suggesting the US develop the military uses of nuclear power.The story is set after World War II, shortly after the United States surrendered to the Soviet Union following a sneak attack using germ warfare.Szilard is offered a choice: He can volunteer to work on scientific projects in the Soviet Union, or he can remain in the United States, and stand trial as a war criminal for his role in the development and use of the first atomic bombs during the Second World War.Szilard chooses to stand trial. ".
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal label "My Trial as a War Criminal".
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal sameAs Q17145624.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal sameAs m.05mrd24.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal sameAs Q17145624.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal wasDerivedFrom My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal?oldid=491926999.
- My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal isPrimaryTopicOf My_Trial_as_a_War_Criminal.