"The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country."
-J. Robert Oppenheimer
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"In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.“
-J. Robert Oppenheimer
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"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
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