Shooting Blanks posted:

My understanding is that he recognized the utility in developing it, but he wasn't advocating using it. Subtle but distinct difference.

In the WWII thread there's a great discussion at some point about the Nazi's development of atomic weapons, the best part of which is that the OSS (CIA predecessor) sent a pro baseball player named Moe Berg to Germany to determine how likely it was that the Nazis would develop the bomb. He decided they were making some fundamentally flawed calculations/assumptions and decided not to assassinate any of the German physicists.