>>12515349>What exactly was done to them? If you're thinking of the holocaust, it's unlikely anyone on the Manhattan project knew about that yet. They knew Nazi Germany was a bad place to be if you're Jewish and some of them were exiled from Germany themselves, but it wasn't until the very end of the war that the extent of what happened in German controlled areas was known.>There are Jewish subpopulations that seem to do very well in particular areas of science. These also happen to be the areas that are covered by the most well known Nobel prizes. As far as IQ metrics go, Jewish people as a whole seem to be unremarkable. The IQ number that gets thrown around a lot was from high school students attending one particular university prep academy in the late 1950s. It's hardly representative of Jewish people as a whole. But that should give you pause to ask if other IQ scores for large groups were sourced from similar very small subpopulations that aren't representative of the larger population group they belong to.Jew here
It's probably mostly or at least significantly a matter of culture, but it's difficult to know at this point
Also, a lot of the Jews working on the atomic bomb fled from Germany to the US specifically due to the growing persecution. At the time they were developing the bomb, the mass extermination wasn't yet known, but they were well-aware of the mass deportation of Jews and others to concentration camps which they knew at the very least had poor conditions, and I think that's enough to feel some desire for revenge or at least a strong sense of conviction to prevent the Nazis from taking over all of Europe
