Atomic Age - J. Robert Oppenheimer Quote

J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist, best known for his role as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons, at the secret Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico. He is known colloquially as "the father of the atomic bomb". Taken from the Atomic Age video collection.

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[AcornBurrka]

This video scares the shit out of me

[zombiedestroyr]

Thumbs Up if you first heard this on A Thousand Suns Album.

[itsabig]

@tarjay35 i do believe it's "your inbred ass"....see the dif? your is quite different than the possessive "you're"...............alas, me thinks Nascar is a word you search on Giggle, i mean Gooooogle, i mean Frugal, i mean,"mom, can i have my allowance now?" dunno, and i don't care what your agenda is, trying to slander a moment in history. J Rob was a flash of pure genius. try to imagine Stalin or Hirohito dropping them nuggets at will on the North American continent?

[itsabig]

@transporterIII you're trying to say FDR knew isolationism was bad mojo? do you still think that's a good idea? Hitler would have gone no further that Poland without shallow thought, and Japan entering would have stopped with a massive influx into a democratic China......are ya seeing the problem in history there?....no Korea, no Viet Nam, just hundreds of thousands, millions of lives, not wasted for absolutely nothing. those not aware of history are destined to repeat it.

[transporterIII]

@itsabig @itsabig Weren't the original inhabitants of Hawaii "yellow"? And you should consider the fact that American elites wanted a Japanese attack and sold Americans a line of BS that unfortunately most of us still believe.

[transporterIII]

@OldmanChester Greatness? Oppenheimer is crying in the interview because he knows his hand in "greatness" may someday kill every everyone. Notice also he references Shiva (aka Apollyon?); Surely the "god of destruction" is great and may have used humankind to accomplish the goal therein. Not my idea of greatness but that's semantics.

[TheMostAwesomeMan242]

Linkin Park brought me here!!!

[jfman]

the part when he says "now i have become death, the destroyer of worlds" is the intro to antithesis by origin. a song about how we will be all wiped out by the bombs we make. not only a truly haunting intro, but the last half of the song is the most epic stuff ever....

[2011jlt]

@OldmanChester That, is a fantastic way at looking at it. I often envisage what the world would look (and be) like only a few years after we're gone...

[OldmanChester]

One of the greatest men in the world. Oppenheimer created the tool that can end the human race in effect ending all future wars.

[TheJysix]

Never forget.