When the future is history. Eight Lessons After Hiroshima - Robert J. Oppenheimer

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2023 UTET Edition

The world would not be the same without J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant physicist at the center of the Manhattan Project who conceived and then delivered the devastating force of the atomic bomb to the US military. Of Jewish origin, Oppenheimer found himself collaborating with scientists such as Fermi, Einstein, Dirac, Born, Heisenberg and Pauli from a very young age, but throughout his life he maintained an irregular profile, passionate about Roman history and oriental philosophies, Hinduism and art . Precisely this humanist spirit distanced him from the cold pragmatism of the scientist, who always risks becoming a mere instrument of the present. Oppenheimer had in fact agreed to help the American government to stop the Nazi horror, but he knew very well that his actions had dispelled the specters of war only to create new and more frightening ones....

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2023 UTET Edition

The world would not be the same without J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant physicist at the center of the Manhattan Project who conceived and then delivered the devastating force of the atomic bomb to the US military. Of Jewish origin, Oppenheimer found himself collaborating with scientists such as Fermi, Einstein, Dirac, Born, Heisenberg and Pauli from a very young age, but throughout his life he maintained an irregular profile, passionate about Roman history and oriental philosophies, Hinduism and art . Precisely this humanist spirit distanced him from the cold pragmatism of the scientist, who always risks becoming a mere instrument of the present. Oppenheimer had in fact agreed to help the American government to stop the Nazi horror, but he knew very well that his actions had dispelled the specters of war only to create new and more frightening ones....

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