J. Robert Oppenheimer
I don't know if we can be trusted with such a weapon, but I know the Nazis can't.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer You didn’t hire me despite my left-wing past, you hired me because of it. So you could control me.
J. Robert Oppenheimer We’re theorists. Yes? We imagine a future, and our imaginings horrify us. They won’t fear it until they understand it, and they won’t understand it until they’ve used it. When the world learns the terrible secret of Los Alamos, our work here will ensure a peace mankind has never seen -- a peace based on the kind of international cooperation that Roosevelt always envisaged.
J. Robert Oppenheimer Just because we’re building it doesn’t mean we get to decide how it’s used.
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