How the Atomic Bomb Destroyed the Life of its Creator

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  @Newsthink · 3 years ago (edited) · pinned

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  @blueblaze5160 · 3 years ago

  He died during the height of the Cold War, where tensions didn’t seem to be cooling down between the US and the USSR. Oppenheimer died believing that he was responsible for the end of the entire human race.

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  @caolanochearnaigh9804 · 3 years ago (edited)

  One of my grandpa&apos;s friends knew Oppenheimer.<br>He said that when he met with Oppenheimer after the bombs dropped, he was, and I quote, &quot;nothing but a shell of the man he once was, he was haunted by grief and consumed by guilt, it was like he wasn&apos;t there, like he was a ghost&quot;.<br><br>He dreamed of creating the strongest weapon known to our species.<br>And he succeeded.

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  @VINDIC8OR · 3 years ago

  Rest easy, Robert. Humanity found other ways to destroy itself. More painful ways.

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  @GlobetrottingVegabond · 3 years ago

  The way he was treated by his friends, colleagues, and the government after they no longer had any use for him was disgraceful and gut-wrenching.

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  @anamkhan2603 · 3 years ago

  gosh, I simply cannot even imagine the pain this man went through. he dedicated his whole life to something only to regret it later. Cillian Murphy will surely do justice to his story. cannot wait for the movie.

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  @deez187 · 3 years ago

  That first shot of him on camera... you rarely capture deadness, terror, and despair like that in someone&apos;s eyes. It&apos;s truly chilling. You feel terribly for the guy

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  @young1939 · 3 years ago

  My physics professor in college worked with Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer would break into the secure safe and mess things up just to mess with the security guards. He had a great sense of humor along with his great intelligence. He wanted to have the Japanese invited to a neutral island and see a detonation of an atomic bomb. My prof was the first person to have a chain reaction go critical and survive. The two parties ahead of him were killed. He did it by remote 3 miles away.

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  @moinulhasanahmed531 · 3 years ago

  He died believing, he had become death , the destroyer of worlds. I cannot even begin to fathom the pain and guilt he went through. RIP

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  @DinulMindula · 3 years ago

  Unpopular opinion: If it weren&apos;t for the atomic bomb, in the last seven decades, we could have easily seen another world war and three or four times more wars across the world. The sheer power of the atomic bomb prevented global powers from engaging in direct wars, which could have been devastating if anyone had used a nuclear weapon. The fear of nuclear weapons has kept the world more peaceful than you might think.

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  @sasamuraki · 3 years ago

  The most captivating part of the movie was when he met President Truman, telling him how guilty he was and blood on hands - what Truman said after that was chilling - that while Oppenheimer made the bomb, he approved and chose the cities to me bombed - basically saying “you are too self centered, if anyone who has blood on his hands, it’s me”.

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  @mrdondos9830 · 3 years ago

  After watching the movie just last night, I have to say I am both humbled and terrified by what this man achieved. Anyone who thinks his decisions were easy to make are fooling themselves. Shame that it took a movie so that many people like me knew about his incredible story

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