When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
— Robert Oppenheimer Modern

Manhattan Project leader

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Lecture at Los Alamos

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1954

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/j-robert-oppenheimer

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