>>17091236
he was honestly right
and i remember strass's monologue at the end being particular on point

>>17091236
Truman was unironically based in his dealing with Oppenheimer. Dude was a crybaby.

>>17091316
>At Los Alamos he preyed on
the naiveté of scientists who
thought they’d get a say in how we
used their work, but don’t ever
think he was that naive himself.
>Oppenheimer wanted to own the
atomic bomb. He wanted to be the
man who moved the earth.
>He talks about putting the nuclear
genie back in the bottle- well, I’m
here to tell you that I know J
Robert Oppenheimer and if he could
do it all over he’d do it all the
same!
>He’s never once said he
regrets Hiroshima! He’d do it all
over because is his mind it made him the most
important man who ever lived.
>But he wanted all the glory and
none of the responsibility. So he
needed absolution. He needed to be
a martyr. To suffer, and take the
sins of the world on his shoulders.
>To say "no we cannot continue on
this road" even as he knew we’d
have to!
>He wanted the glorious insincere
guilt of the self-important to wear
like a fucking crown!