"The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country."
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Atomic Bomb Made The Prospect
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer delivered this speech at Los Alamos on 2 November 1945, less than three months after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was addressing the scientists who had built the bomb, reflecting on what the weapon meant for the future of war and international relations. The speech mixed pride in the scientific achievement with frank anxiety about the world the bomb had created.
Source
Speech at Los Alamos, 1945