The Father of the Atom Bomb
May 5, 2013
Robert Oppenheimer said upon the detonation of the first atomic bomb: “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” At least he refused to work on the hydrogen bomb, incurring the wrath of Joe McCarthy, says a new biography called Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center.
Yes, I know that RO was a commie, even though he claimed to not be a party member. When told that he probably belonged to every front organization on the coast, RO replied: “Just about.”
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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