Don’t let that crybaby in here again
Steven Shapin: The Manhattan Project, 7 September 2000
In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist
by S.S. Schweber.
Princeton, 260 pp., £15.95, May 2000,0 691 04989 0 Show More
by S.S. Schweber.
Princeton, 260 pp., £15.95, May 2000,
Atomic Fragments: A Daughter’s Questions
by Mary Palevsky.
California, 289 pp., £15.95, June 2000,0 520 22055 2 Show More
by Mary Palevsky.
California, 289 pp., £15.95, June 2000,
“... plutonium bomb exploded on the Jornada del Muerto near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 16 July 1945, Robert Oppenheimer, the Scientific Director of Los Alamos, remembered the line from the Bhagavad Gita where Vishnu says: ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ One other remark deserves to be immortalised, which Oppenheimer himself later judged the ... ”