Comment Re:oppenheimer's reaction (Score 3, Interesting) 47
There's an interesting debate about the Bhagavad Gita in that some of the stories in there apparently describe effects that are in line with a nuclear or even thermo-nuclear explosion and that therefore Oppenheimer would have "known" about the bomb.
I guess after Otto Hahn was able to split Uranium atoms, physicists started to realize the orders of magnitude of power that this could deliver.
The 1930s were wild. In a sense, we're approaching the same social, political and technological climate again. God knows where it will end. Or if it will just end us.