Paul Fruehauf Thanks for the powerful double history lesson. In NM we are particularly tuned into this part of the past;J.R. OPPENHEIMER ON HIS MANHATTAN PROJECT: NOW I AM BECOME DEATH, THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS. This sentence reads like dialogue spoken by an alien warlord in a science-fiction movie. So it all the more unsettling that Julius Robert Oppenheimer was neither exaggerating nor boasting when he said it. His studies in physics added to human knowledge about the most unfathomable questions in the universe; black holes, nuclear physics, spectroscopy, quantum field theory, and quantum electrodynamics. But his work wasnt just theoretical. His knowledge of nuclear theory was put to a devastatingly practical use in WWII, when he became the lead physicist on the Manhattan Project, which developed the first atom bomb. Years later, in 1960, Oppenheimer would recount how he felt watching the first detonation. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita…..Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. Watch Oppenheimer speak the words here.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 16:26:45 +0000
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