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Now the Soviets had the bomb, they reasoned, excessive secrecy no longer had any rationale.

The atomic bombings were "not so much the last military act of the Second World War", (Blackett) concluded, "as the first major operation of the cold diplomatic war with Russia now in progress"

Aquella noche sentí el vértigo inmenso del desamparo...

... over the next eight years, Hoover and his agents would generate some 1,000 pages each year of memos, surveillance reports and wiretap transcripts on Oppenheimer

No solo estudiando... También se aprende imaginando.

Invertíamos tanto en esos sueños que acabábamos creyéndolos.

No. I'm not an attached kind of person

To put it quite frankly -I would feel friendly to the idea of the Commander in Chief informing the Russians that we were working on this problem

... even on workdays he usually wore casual clothes, reverting to his New Mexico wardrobe of jeans or khaki pants with a blue tieless workshirt.

He so feared that they were already in a losing race against the Germans that he impatiently dismissed any research efforts that seemed too time-consuming

Somos lo que vemos, leemos, escuchamos, creemos, vivimos, sentimos y sabemos.

Pero como tienes vocación de mártir, te dejaré a sufrir tu pinche vida

Huimos de ellos pero nunca íbamos a poder escapar de nosotros.

El portador de una máscara es él mismo; y sin embargo es el otro.

The elementary test of a good society is its ability to keep its members alive

Aunque es verdad que son tiempos oscuros en los que un hombre sabio debe pensar cosas que se contradicen entre sí

Moody and introspective, Tatlock shared Robert's obsession with the unconscious

Oppie made the "best martinis in the world", invariably drunk with his trademark toast, "To the confusion of our enemies".

Sin silencio no hay música. Sin corazones rotos no hay canciones tristes

To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than it shall run noiselessly

Through all this turmoil, Robert had become something of his own psychoanalyst, consciously trying to confront his emotional fragility

A los enemigos se les ve a los ojos antes de vencerlos.

I probably learned a good deal by a method that is never given enough credit, that is, by being with people

And, like Faust, Robert Oppenheimer tried to renegotiate the bargain -and was cut down for doing so.

He perdido la curiosidad, la paciencia, he olvidado indagar sobre el porqué de las cosas más pequeñas.