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One moment, it was a warm summer’s day with a few clouds in the sky.
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We should be careful about putting too much faith in people's decades-old recollection of what happened at Trinity given the political context in which those memories were recorded.Everything changed in an instant. Yes, most also follow that with "and then people quieted down as if."īut, on the other hand, remember that we are talking about a bunch of middle-aged academics up at 5:30 in the morning. Indeed, there are many accounts of jubulation and excitement. In fact, the only attributed quotation we have from him with any proximity to the test itself (before the bomb was used in Japan) is the simple exclamation of "It worked!"Ī review of the other reactions at Los Alamos shows a number of thoughts but only Oppenheimer's 1965 statement is so profoundly brooding, coming as it does on the heels of the Cuban Missile Crisis and after his ejection from national security circles at the hands of Teller et al. I'm not saying Oppenheimer deliberately retconned his own history here, but the 20 years between Trinity and the video were tumultuous ones both geopolitically and for Oppenheimer personally. Look, I and everyone else with even a passing interest in this period of time is aware of the Oppenheimer quote but the video you're linking is from 1965.
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