Oppenheimer admits Hiroshima was costly and inhumane; 1965
J. Robert Oppenheimer explains how he felt the prospect of invading Japan was terrible for everyone but also feels that dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was "far more costly and inhumane than it needed to have been,to have been an effective argument for ending the war. This is easy to say after the fact"; 1965. (LDC5127L - AEVZ001J)





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