Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Fallout

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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