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War Quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer
- If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for…
- Submit an agreement providing for the peaceful absorbtion of a celestial races in such a manner that our culture would remain intact with guarantee that…
- The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
- Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and…
- 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…
- "It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation according to brother, Frank)
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- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
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