Oppenheimer was smart AND a patriot. And he knew what he was unleashing… but felt it was needful. He was probably wrong: If the US had been able to communicate clearly with the Japanese, they might have (my reading says “likely would have”) been willing to negotiate a surrender. Of course, that wasn’t Oppie’s job.
Turner has another thing wrong. The atom bombs have (so far… as well as we understand things) NOT been a destroyer of our world. But burning fossil fuels in such great quantity over such a short time span MAY turn out to be the thing that decimates humanity (not the world, which will keep on keepin’ on just fine, thank you).
Oppenheimer was smart AND a patriot. And he knew what he was unleashing… but felt it was needful. He was probably wrong: If the US had been able to communicate clearly with the Japanese, they might have (my reading says “likely would have”) been willing to negotiate a surrender. Of course, that wasn’t Oppie’s job.
Turner has another thing wrong. The atom bombs have (so far… as well as we understand things) NOT been a destroyer of our world. But burning fossil fuels in such great quantity over such a short time span MAY turn out to be the thing that decimates humanity (not the world, which will keep on keepin’ on just fine, thank you).