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Question - I’ve read some interesting assessments of Oppenheimer being just shy of a fictional character and the Manhattan project a massive psyop. How does what you’re reading collide with that theory?

Nyoro~n 2y ago

when the autobiography gets to his higher education there's many details to remind everyone that quantum mechanics was such a new field at that time, and those novel ideas were only slightly understood by a handful of academics who basically all knew each other... I find it hard to believe his involvement in the Manhattan Project is a psyop, it'd take a massive global conspiracy, anyone capable of that wouldn't need an atom bomb in the first place 😅

Book aside, Oppenheimer's legacy isn't just the Manhattan project, it's his colleagues and students who learned from him and who go on to make further discoveries, and we take such discoveries for granted today:

For example, we're communicating through hand-held devices manipulating electrons in semi-conductors right now probably across an entire ocean, psyops wouldn't ever make anything 🥳

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mrclownworld 2y ago

There has been a successful global conspiracy to keep nuclear secrets secret for the last 80 years (not to mention the official narrative of the Manhattan project is itself a successful conspiracy). Whether the “secret” was a real bomb or fake one, the secret has been so well-kept that the only bombs used as weapons were the first two. So I do think your “a global conspiracy isn’t possible” argument fails, but I am interested in all the other details