The part of this article that I found most interesting was when Walzer talked about MacDonald's "The Decline To Barbarism."  Having just read that article before going over this one again, I could not help but be pulled to this section, as it gave a completely contrasting view of the scientists and specialists involved in the making of the atomic bomb.

While Dwight MacDonald said that the specialists were incomplete men who did not stand up for their own beliefs in order to stop the bomb, Walzer says instead that these men were doing just that, standing up for their own beliefs.  He states that many of these scientists had immigrated to the United States from Europe, and worked to give the United States the atomic bomb solely to fight off the Germans, believing that if Germany had sole possession of the atomic bomb, none of their home countries would be safe.

Walzer says that they "were driven by a deep moral anxiety, not by any kind of scientific fascination… they were men and women without political power or following, and once their own work was done, they could not control its use" (Walzer 263).  Albert Einstein is quoted as saying that if he had known the German army would not be able to finish their atomic bomb, he would not have "lifted a finger" to show anyone else how to make one. 

I find it fascinating that Walzer shows a completely different side of these scientists, and, in my opinion, makes a much stronger argument about why the specialists and scientists would be so eager to help the United States create a weapon that could possibly lead to the destruction of the world.  It seems odd to me to believe that anyone with a brain could possibly believe that creating the atomic bomb was a good idea, but when put into the context of believing that creating it would stop the Germans from using it, I can almost sympathize with the scientists, who may have been simply trying to save their homelands from Hitler.