Andrew Strominger

So there might be something completely different.

They might function in a very different way.

Well, first of all, I don't know what the brilliant had to do with it because, of course, you know, Oppenheimer and all that, okay, they did it really fast, but if you didn't have Oppenheimer, you know, I mean, it would all have happened anyway.

it had a reality of its own.

The possibility of making a nuclear, it didn't depend on the fact that the physicists who built it were brilliant.

Maybe that sped it up by a year or two years, but by now we'd have nuclear weapons.

It's something that,

Right.

The possibility of making nuclear weapons was discovered, right?

It was there before we didn't, it's not like somebody made it, right?

Without Picasso, you know, there would never have been a Guernica, but without Oppenheimer, there would surely have still been an atom bomb.

The timing mattered there.

But I, yeah, okay, I mean, you could try to make a case for stopping...

Yeah.

At that moment, it was certainly a question for Oppenheimer and everybody who participated in that.

What is the responsible way to serve society when you're sort of accidentally in this position of being at the forefront of

a development that has a huge impact on society.

I don't see my work, the likelihood of having a huge impact on the development of society itself.

But if I were you,

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