After WWII, America secretly brought over Nazi scientists (including Wernher von Braun) to build Cold War rockets and later lead NASA’s Moon landing program. These same individuals were involved in the V-2 rocket program that used forced labor and caused massive civilian casualties.
Is it possible to separate scientific achievement from the ethics of how it was achieved? Can progress built on questionable foundations still be celebrated — or does it always carry a historical debt?
Curious what others think.
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Was the U.S. space race a triumph of science — or a moral compromise rooted in Operation Paperclip?
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