Oppenheimer Tweets

Oppenheimer Tweets

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The life of J. Robert Oppenheimer accelerated through 600 tweets.

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Tweets

  1. 9h

    ... under the names ‘Oppenheimer’, ‘Teller’ etc, so that the enemy doesn’t get suspicious about where we’ve all gone. (1943, aged 39)

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  2. 10h

    But perhaps this will work: I will get Pauli to apply his great talents for physics and burlesque by writing passable physics articles...

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  3. 17h

    ... and talked loudly about the ELECTRIC ROCKETS they were working on at Los Alamos. Nobody in the bar could care less. (1943, aged 39)

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  4. 17h

    That was a bit of a failure. I gave Serber a mission to spread false rumors about what we are doing here. He went to a bar in Santa Fe...

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  5. 4 Feb

    I never lose the feeling here that I am being watched. There are many security agents here, not all of whom wear badges. (1943, aged 38)

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  6. 4 Feb

    Back in Los Alamos. Bulldozers outside my window. This laboratory is getting big. (1943, aged 38)

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  7. 4 Feb

    ... I told him that this sounded like treason, and that it would be a terrible thing to do. I am done with all of that. (1943, aged 38)

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  8. 4 Feb

    Back in Berkeley for a farewell party. Chevalier took me to one side and told me he has means of getting technical info to the Soviets...

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  9. 3 Feb

    Lots to organize for our new town here in Los Alamos: schools, laundry facilities, restaurants... we are making a community. (1942, aged 38)

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  10. 3 Feb

    ... Now there is no excuse to turn half this country into a bomb factory. (1942, aged 38)

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  11. 3 Feb

    ‘The Italian navigator has just landed in the New World.’ Read: Fermi has just created a chain reaction in his racquet courts...

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  12. 2 Feb

    ... But look, what if the Nazis get it first? (1942, aged 38)

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  13. 2 Feb

    Sad my good friend Isidor Rabi won’t come work here. He is against bombs: ‘they fall on the just and the unjust alike.’...

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  14. 2 Feb

    Experimental physics is 90% plumbing. (1942, aged 38)

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  15. 2 Feb

    My team says it is nearly impossible to get machines to this isolated place & I wouldn’t have chosen this place if I’d known one fact:

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  16. 1 Feb

    Groves wants me to head Los Alamos (he has a fatal weakness for good men). We need many men and many machines. (1942, aged 38)

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  17. 31 Jan

    With Groves in New Mexico. He hated my first spot. Now at the Los Alamos Ranch School. He loves it. Let’s build a lab. (1942, aged 38)

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  18. 31 Jan

    ... I have been trying to push for the mountains of New Mexico. It is a lovely spot, after all. (1942, aged 38)

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  19. 31 Jan

    ... We need a central laboratory. To eliminate the waste & frustration & error of compartmentalization. Somewhere remote...

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  20. 31 Jan

    Groves seems to have raised the hackles of my scientists, but *we* get on fine. Crammed into a train with him now, discussing how...

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