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Maj Marty Hogan Wonder if your post will spawn some discussion...I remember reading many years ago this reflection attributed to Dr. Oppenheimer: "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'" He was correct...the world hasn't been the same since.
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CDR Dan Cunningham
One of my professors at the Naval Postgraduate School was Dr. Richard Hamming, who worked on the Manhattan project - his boss was Hans Bethe, the head of the 'T' Division, and Bethe's boss was Oppenheimer.
A quote from his work: “At Los Alamos ... we were designing atomic bombs. Shortly before the first field test … a man asked me to check some arithmetic he had done, and I agreed, thinking to fob it off on some subordinate. When I asked what it was, he said, ‘It is the probability that the test bomb will ignite the whole atmosphere.’ I decided I would check it myself!"
A quote from his work: “At Los Alamos ... we were designing atomic bombs. Shortly before the first field test … a man asked me to check some arithmetic he had done, and I agreed, thinking to fob it off on some subordinate. When I asked what it was, he said, ‘It is the probability that the test bomb will ignite the whole atmosphere.’ I decided I would check it myself!"
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