Maybe General Groves Was Right. Maybe We

The People Of This World Must Unite Or They Will Perish.

I Remembered The Line From The Hindu Scripture, The Bhagavad-gita... "now I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds." I Suppose We All Thought That, One Way Or Another.

Discovery Follows Discovery, Each Both Raising And Answering Questions, Each Ending A Long Search, And Each Providing The New Instruments For A New Search.

Despite The Vision And Farseeing Wisdom Of Our Wartime Heads Of State, The Physicists Have Felt The Peculiarly Intimate Responsibility For Suggesting, For Supporting, And In The End, In Large Measure, For Achieving The Realization Of Atomic Weapons. Nor Can We Forget That These Weapons As They Were In Fact Used Dramatized So Mercilessly The Inhumanity And Evil Of Modern War. In Some Sort Of Crude Sense Which No Vulgarity, No Humor, No Overstatement Can Quite Extinguish, The Physicists Have Known Sin; And This Is A Knowledge Which They Cannot Lose.

In A Free World, If It Is To Remain Free, We Must Maintain, With Our Lives If Need Be, But Surely By Our Lives, The Opportunity For A Man To Learn Anything