Red Salome

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BABY!! I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!

i love seeing oppenheimer discourse on this website revolving around how the movie is going to ‘glorify the atomic bomb’ or ‘celebrate war writ large’ bc it honestly makes me think people know literally nothing about who oppenheimer was, what he came to believe, or what happened to him. but go off i guess

like look not to self reblog here but this is the story of a german jewish man with family and friends he’d helped escape nazi germany, who had known heisenberg personally and held him in deep scientific respect, who believed under heisenberg’s leadership that the nazis would develop the bomb first and who also believed in his heart of hearts that such a thing could never happen. this was a man whose life was destroyed after he came to believe nuclear weapons were genocidal, who died after being publicly discredited and humiliated for his very open opposition to arms race and development the hydrogen bomb, and who literally told truman to his face, “mr. president, i feel i have blood on my hands.” anyway if told truthfully it’s an anti-atomic bomb story if there ever was one and it’s a hill i’ll die on.