Critical Error 11 Drawing Words from the Wrong Well

Abstract

Toward the end of World War II, Niels Bohr set up a meeting with Winston Churchill to warn him about an atomic arms race that Bohr correctly predicted would occur after the war. Bohr wanted all countries to establish guidelines to contain these weapons. A few months earlier, Churchill had diminished hopes for such guidelines by signing away British rights to nuclear development. Because Bohr, who had recently fled Denmark, did not speak English very well, he decided to write out the presentation in his best English and have a friend, R.V. Jones, go over the draft and polish the language.