Christina and I went to the film shortly released, in comfortable Aldeburgh.
She sent this excellent piece by New York Times, in which Einstine calls Oppenheimer a ‘narr’ ie fool to subject himself to the Kangaroo court.
Parallels with today, and Trump and Putin:
Today, Vladimir Putin’s not-so-veiled threats to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine are a stark reminder that we can never be complacent about living with nuclear weapons. Oppenheimer did not regret what he did at Los Alamos; he understood that you cannot stop curious human beings from discovering the physical world around them. One cannot halt the scientific quest, nor can one un-invent the atomic bomb. But Oppenheimer always believed that human beings could learn to regulate these technologies and integrate them into a sustainable and humane civilization. We can only hope he was right.
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