J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
Well, you could get a screwdriver and open up each case.
The Scientific Project that developed the Atomic Bomb. When Oppenheimer led the development of the atomic bomb, scientists and officials began thinking about nuclear proliferation and defenses if unfriendly forces also developed bombs. Oppenheimer had told a groups of Congressmen and other officials that an atomic bomb could be put in a crate and shipped into the country with commercial sea or air cargo. A visiting congressman asked what could be done to prevent and detect that. Oppenheimer who had a wry sense of humor gave this famous reply. The secret report that the group produced thereafter became known as the “Screwdriver Report.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1904-1967, Physicist and Scientific Director of the Manhattan Project Speech to fellow scientists after he had let the development of the atomic bomb, Played at The National Book Festival, September 30, 2006
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The bipartisan Presidential Commission had unanimously made 41 recommendations to prevent future terrorist attacks. While the Bush Administration and Congress implemented a few many of the more critical ones were left unaddressed. The commission on its final day issued a report card giving failing grades to both the White House and the Republican-controlled Congress.
Other nations had nuclear weapons but were not regarded as threats to national and world security. The problem was that Iran was the ONLY nation which was a theocracy in which the leadership strongly advocated death (martyrdom) to defend Islam; had for years had a population that on frequent occasions publically called for “Death to the Untied States”; Iran’s President is the only national leader and member of the United Nations that has called for the obliteration of another member state—Israel; has continuous supported the worst of the non state terrorist organizations by giving them arms and money. A small nuclear bomb smuggled into the US by terrorist organizations could make 9-11 look like a minor problem.
This prediction was sadly terribly accurate. Nuclear terrorism is a realistic threat at the millennium. Pannekoek was one of the first to predict it.
The largest refinery also in Houston did not have a single armed guard on duty.
If we replace the word “socialist” with “capitalist” this statement would be approved by almost every American Senior Military officer and Defense Official as well as most members of Congress. The reality was that the basic defense posture of the Soviet Union and the United States was essentially the same during the Cold War.
This was a realistic assessment of the power of aircraft carrier-based warplanes as had been demonstrated at Pearl Harbor.
J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is among those who are credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb" for their role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons. The first atomic bomb was successfully detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico.
