A NOTE TO ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

Did you really feel it, Bob

When you quoted the ancient scripture

"I am death, destroyer of worlds"?

Or was this feigned sympathy

After your great achievement

The physicist's dream

And the world's nightmare?

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Robert Oppenheimer, director of the atomic bomb project (Manhattan Project) is said to have been truly sorry for the fruits of his labor.  Hard to believe that a guy so smart could not have foreseen the long term ramifications prior to getting involved.

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