Oppenheimer, Zoe Saldana, The WGA and SAG Strike
CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley
The Last Words of Oppenheimer
The gadget was hoisted to the top of a 100-foot tower and the countdown began. Oppenheimer supposedly said, Lord, these affairs are difficult on the heart. This was literally life and death because of every day that was going on in the war. Thousands and thousands of more people were being killed. Three weeks after the test, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Then a second one on Nagasaki. We had split the atom, we had changed the world. But that is only half the story. He shortly afterwards plunged into deep depression.
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