During the Manhattan Project, the US government experienced protests from many people, specifically Professor Szilard and some of his colleagues who did not approve of the nuclear bombs being dropped on Japan. He wrote, “Many of us are inclined to say that individual Germans share the guilt for the acts which Germany committed during this war because they did not raise their voices in protest against those acts. Their defense that their protest would have been of no avail hardly seems acceptable even though these Germans could not have protested without running risks to life and liberty. We are in a position to raise our voices without incurring any such risks even though we might incur the displeasure of some of those who are at present in charge of controlling the work on atomic power."