re: #10 William Barnett-Lewis

That’s a myth. It’s terribly easy to run the equations that showed how the plutonium implosion “gadget” would (and did) behave on detonation. Simple physics. Now it its true that Oppenheimer quoted from the Bhagavad Gita (“I am become death; the destroyer of worlds”) because he foresaw the political mess this weapon would create, but that’s a considerably different issue.

Think that’s one of the great stains on our legacy, that men like Oppenheimer were not only ridiculed, but accused of everything short of treason for advocating against nuclear proliferation.