Author: J. Robert Oppenheimer

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• Erin Bow (1)
  • IN: The Scorpion Rules (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We may be likened to two scorpios in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
    FROM: Atomic Weapons and Americal Policy, (1953), Article, US
• William Nicholson (1)
  • IN: Reckless (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Why I chose the name is not clear, but I know what thoughts were in my mind. There is a poem of John Donne, written just before his death, which I know and love. From it a quotation: 'As East and West In all flat maps -- and I am one -- are one, So death doth touch the resurrection.' That still does not make a Trinity, but in another better known devotional poem Donne opens, 'Batter my heart, three-person'd God...'
    FROM: on why he named the first atom bomb test "Trinity", (None), Conversation, US