Maybe General Groves Was Right. Maybe We

There Is Something Irreversible About Acquiring Knowledge; And The Simulation Of The Search For It Differs In A Most Profound Way From The Reality.

If Atomic Bombs Are To Be Added As New Weapons To The Arsenals Of A Warring World, Or To The Arsenals Of Nations Preparing For War, Then The Time Will Come When Mankind Will Curse The Names Of Los Alamos And Hiroshima. The People Must Unite Or They Will Perish.

We Knew The World Would Not Be The Same. A Few People Laughed, A Few People Cried, Most People Were Silent. I Remembered The Line From The Hindu Scripture, The Bhagavad-gita; Vishnu Is Trying To Persuade The Prince That He Should Do His Duty And, To Impress Him, Takes On His Multi-armed Form And Says, "now I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds." I Suppose We All Thought That, One Way Or Another.

'it Worked.' (said After Witnessing The First Atomic Detonation).

A Pragmatist Is Concerned With Results, Not Reality.