In short, nuclear weapons were created and used to end a war, not to fight one. Oppenheimer understood that only too well. He knew that ever more powerful weapons would be coming, which is why he so strongly opposed the H-bomb.
Perhaps, instead of just roiling clouds, his eponymous movie should have shown the actual death and destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, so that today’s leaders, and those of the future, could see what a single weapon, of the thousands that now exist, could do.
-Walter Pincus in the WaPost
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