Atomic Fragments: A Daughter's Questions by Mary Palevsky

Author:Mary Palevsky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-07-02T16:00:00+00:00

I responded that I was thinking more in terms of power, that Groves had given Oppenheimer the power he wanted. Here, Jane Wilson, who had been quietly listening, reentered the conversation.

I think Oppy loved being director of that project. I think he adored his fame as father of the bomb. And then it really changed his political and social outlook, so that from being an out-person, he became an in-person, and this of course happens to an awful lot of people. He was going to Washington, and this of course is now 1946 and later, until the fall [from power]. But he really enjoyed being a celebrity and a person in the halls of power. And I'm afraid we all would. So then, instead of feeling very much, the working man hasn't got a fair shake or we're going to do something for the teachers' union, we had bigger and better and higher things to do. And I'm almost certain that this went on. Don't you think so, Bob?

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