Write An Argumentative Essay On Robert Oppenheimer

“When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and to do it, and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the bomb,” said Robert Oppenheimer, the leader of the Manhattan Project (Polenburg 2002, 41). The atomic bomb has been exhaustively debated, as is Robert Oppenheimer’s life, but that’s what makes it so researchable and interesting; there is information on both sides of the argument - on Oppenheimer’s morals and on criticism on the U.S. government. Scientists, can kind of care, care, or not care about morality; and there is a responsibility when making war decisions - there should be a parallel harmony between the government and scientists. However the
To this respect, in an interview by Ed Murrow he says, “There aren’t secrets about the world of nature, there are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men. Sometimes they are secrets because a man doesn’t like to know what he is up to if he can avoid it” (Hewitt 1955). He is implying, clarified by his later thoughts, that science is available for everyone to learn, but man’s intent for science is a secret, even though the man may not even want to know what his intentions are. Perhaps the ambiguity comes from this generalization of man; he would not say this unless he believed in its truthness a little. But, for what reason would a man not want to know what his intentions are besides if he knows they are wrong thoughts or for fear of the consequences? He might be implying that the whole time he was working at Los Alamos, he was avoiding the true nature of the project, and that was to kill hundreds of thousands of people, but he thought of that more as doing what the government says is necessary to end the war. The latter is a euphemism that he accepted. Oppenheimer instantly knew however, that the first part, the killing part of the nature of this project, was very real; and now, he feels connected to his