J. Robert Oppenheimer

“And, you know, of course, sitting here today, at least, Ben and I would say that von Neumann, like, had a clearer view of politics than, you know, than Oppenheimer or Einstein did.”

“Which was very prescient and turned out to be the thing that really, I mean, without that, they would not have succeeded and We would be living in a different world today.”

“And unfortunately, you know, the history of this is, is that, you know, Einstein and Oppenheimer and others basically chose to ignore the information and they chose to buy into a system sort of past the point that, you know, for at least for people as smart as…”

“By building bombs that could destroy the world, they prevented at least one, you know, major world war.”