
Precognition of Ep. 96: Oppenheimer’s Rhetoric
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Oppenheimer and the Bomb
Teintru: Oppenheimer was appointed to head up the manhattan project in 19 forty two. He says his scientific colleagues agreed trinity test could not have come to fruition without him. But he became unavoidably associated with the success of the atomic bomb, Teintru writes. The pacifist strand in his thinking and public argumentation had grown stronger since nagasaki and heroshima,. And he publicly opposed an accelerated program to build an bomb proposed by edward teller.
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