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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Well — yes. In modern times, of course.
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Answer to a student at Rochester University who asked whether the bomb exploded at Alamogordo was the first one to be detonated, as quoted in Doomsday, 1999 A.D. (1982) by Charles Berlitz, p. 129

 
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