huinventors1-8, Exercise 3: A fair paragraph

Model answer:

The course is about the history of inventors and scientists, and the question of whether nuclear weapons should have been built and used is a moral and political one on which informed people disagree, including the scientists involved. A fair paragraph states what each person did and said, gives the main arguments on each side in their strongest form, avoids labels such as hero or villain, and marks what is uncertain.

Example: "Szilárd pressed for the project in 1939 out of fear that Germany would build the bomb first, and in 1945 signed a petition asking that it not be used without warning; Teller argued for continued development, including the hydrogen bomb. Historians disagree about the effect of the petition and about the decisions that followed." Details should be checked.