Robert Oppenheimer Sanskrit

The Baghavad Gita passages which J. Robert Oppenheimer thought at ...

, The theoretical physicist from the University of California at Berkeley appointed to lead the Anglo-American development of the atomic bomb, was a brilliant polymath and polyglot and had studied Sanskrit at Harvard. He recalled that these passages flew through his mind when he watched the first atomic bomb detonate in the New Mexico desert on 16 July 1945. Oppenheimer was born and raised an American. Many of the key physicists who helped him design and build the bomb were European fugitives from the Nazis, and had worked feverishly to build the bomb before the Germans could build one. To their horror and dismay, Germany surrendered to the Allies and was out of the war, but now the bomb continued on its destructive destiny to be dropped on two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in August.

Nowp, i am not going to rant, i had a good weekand. I was unable to see tha lady of my thoughts, dreams and desires but I found a few old Motown songs in my collection i have not heard in ages, Uptight just to name one. so i am quite mellow and unwilling to rant. here is a quote from wikipedia, anyone interested in the subject may want to check out the movies trinity and Beyond, and Atomic Cafe (and even duck and cover starring burt the turtle on archives.org). here is the quote “ 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.'[44] ” “ 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.'[44] ” In my (mercifully and unusually) brief comments about the Birth and Spread of the Bomb, I neglected to mention Vleeptron's Very Favorite Atomic Bomb -- the Swiss Atomic Bomb, which CH pondered and studied and spent ƒƒƒƒƒƒ on for 30 or 40 years -- and finally decided Not To Build. You can detonate The Swiss Atomic Bomb in my neighborhood anytime! The Euro fugitive scientists working on the Manhattan Project had good reason to be worried about the Deutschebomb. They knew who the head of the Deuteschebomb Projekt was -- Werner Heisenberg, who thunk up The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, a fundamental cornerstone of Nature, and our ability to perceive it. This was One Smart Guy. At one time the US spies had a scheme going to lure Heisenberg to visit CH, and to assassinate or kidnap him. But when the war ended and Allied Intelligence swarmed into Germany, they discovered the Germans had made almost no progress in building a bomb. There's a lot of historians' speculation that Heisenberg intentionally dragged his feet and let the clock tick away. They had the Heavy Water (from Norway) and they had the Pitchblende (Uranium ore) from Czechoslovakia -- but they hadn't come anywhere close to putting these elements together to make a military weapon. Just at the last month before Surrender, the Germans loaded a U-Boot with their enriched Uranium and shipped it off to their Ally, Imperial Japan -- but the U-Boot commander obeyed his radio orders after the Surrender, and surrendered the U-Boot and its Uranium to the Americans. Japan had its share of brilliant nuclear physicists, but was even further behind Germany in weapons development. The United Nations should pass a new addition to the Charter forbidding governments and teachers from telling children such astonishing bullshit crap. They've got international treaties against Child Soldiers -- I think 14 years old is the youngest permitted soldiers -- but governments can still teach all kinds of Total Bullshit/Scheisse/Merde to little children, and that's still legal. Oppenheimer was a very strange fellow. From a background of pure theoretical physics (he was a pioneer in imagining and describing Black Holes), he was chosen (by the army engineer general who had just built the Pentagon, Leslie Groves) to undertake the overwhelmingly practical project of creating the atomic bomb. To do this, he had to babysit the world's strangest collection of brilliant scientific primadonnas, stellar intellects like Fermi and Teller. Then there's Israel, which has an arsenal of about 300 nuclear weapons -- of both kinds, fission and fusion -- and the region's most effective delivery systems, air force AND submarines with missile launch capability. But Israel officially refuses to acknowledge that it possesses nuclear weapons. And the USA criticizes every nation which tries to build nuclear weapons -- but never mentions Israel.

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