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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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What more do you want, mermaids?
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Isidor Isaac Rabi, noting Oppenheimer had organized scientists to develop the atomic bomb for the US, in defense of him at McCarthy-era security hearings, as quoted in "Atomised" by Brian Cathcart in The New Statesman' (10 January 2008)

 
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