With the advent of the atomic bomb, many scientists viewed physics neutrally, seeing no particular role for scientists in how physics was applied.
should probably be
Until the advent of the atomic bomb, many scientists viewed physics neutrally, seeing no particular role for scientists in how physics was applied.
I can’t imagine that scientists started thinking that physics was neutral right after two cities were obliterated and irradiated. Before that point that viewpoint seems believable, but not so much after.
In chapter 4, the sentence
With the advent of the atomic bomb, many scientists viewed physics neutrally, seeing no particular role for scientists in how physics was applied.
should probably be
Until the advent of the atomic bomb, many scientists viewed physics neutrally, seeing no particular role for scientists in how physics was applied.
I can’t imagine that scientists started thinking that physics was neutral right after two cities were obliterated and irradiated. Before that point that viewpoint seems believable, but not so much after.