Robert Oppenheimer:

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

— Robert Oppenheimer Modern

Manhattan Project leader

Context

Lecture at Los Alamos

Date / Period

1954

Source

https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/j-robert-oppenheimer

Verification

Confirmed

Explanation

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Method

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