Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Thursday, September 28, 2006
"It’ll come out in the wash"
The scientific director at Los Alamos was J. Robert Oppenheimer, a man who (in 1943) pioneered the idea of “poisoning the German food supply with radioactive strontium.” Oppenheimer explained to his boss, General Leslie Groves: “We should not attempt a plan, unless we can poison food sufficient to kill half a million men.”
Within a few years, however, Oppenheimer began to see things a little differently. After learning of the horrors the A Bomb had wrought on Japan, the scientist began to harbor second thoughts, and he resigned in October 1945.
In March of the following year, Oppenheimer told Harry S. Truman: “Mr. President, I have blood on my hands.”
Truman’s reply: “It’ll come out in the wash.”
Later, the president told an aide, “Don’t bring that fellow around again.”
William Burroughs sez: “Bryon Gysin had the all-purpose nuclear bedtime story: Some trillions of years ago, a sloppy, dirty giant flicked grease from his finger. One of those gobs of grease is our universe on its way to the floor...”
...splat.
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