From Ethical Review to Responsible Research and Innovation by Pellé Sophie; Reber Bernard; & Bernard Reber

Author:Pellé, Sophie; Reber, Bernard; & Bernard Reber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Published: 2016-06-30T00:00:00+00:00

Oppenheimer seems to express contradictory feelings towards the enormous power of what he helped to develop. For example, Bird and Sherwin [BIR 06] describe him as being particularly tormented, morose and anxious at the end of the war, particularly after the first tests were carried out in New Mexico and labelled as a success, before the bombs were dropped on Japan. This torment continued after the war ended. In 1948, in an article published by Time magazine, Oppenheimer writes:

“The experience of the war has left us with a legacy of concern… nowhere is this troubled sense of responsibility more acute… than in those who participated in the development of atomic energy for military purposes. … Physics, which played a decisive role in the development of the nuclear bomb, is a direct product of our laboratories and our journals… 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 that they cannot lose”. [RIV 02, p. 305]

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