Fallout
Did you know Oppenheimer associated with communists? Did you know he read the original Sanskrit texts? SANSKRIT!
"I think it really not too improbable," he wrote a friend, "that a ten cm [centimeter] cube of uranium deuteride (one should have something to slow the neutrons without capturing them) might very well blow itself to hell."
- R. Oppenheimer
They worked for death. Yet they may have made the world a more peaceful place. But...
"What instrument would you use to detect an atomic bomb hidden somewhere in a city?" a senator asked in one closed hearing. Oppenheimer responded dryly, "A screwdriver" -- to open cartons and suitcases.
We have yet to see.
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