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The meanings of J. Robert Oppenheimer

He called the first atomic bomb “technically sweet,” yet as he watched its brilliant light explode over the New Mexico desert in 1945 in advance of the black horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he also thought of the line from the Hindu epic The Bhagavad Gita: “I am become Death, the destroyer of wor...

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Autor principal: Banco, Lindsey Michael
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: University of Iowa Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2264316