> What’s harder for me to forgive is that, when asked later in life whether he felt any guilt for his participation in the bomb, he always said no. It seems to

> What’s harder for me to forgive is that, when asked later in life whether he felt any guilt for his participation in the bomb, he always said no. It seems to me that, when called to account for pain that we’ve caused — even indirectly, and even before we had full understanding of the pain we might be causing — we should take responsibility. Expecting someone to profess guilt for the greatest accomplishment of their life is asking quite a lot. I think that Oppenheimer’s other actions demonstrated his remorse, even if he never said it.