I'm really intrigued by how Oppenheimer understood duty through poetry and spiritual texts. It's fitting he so deeply related to Arjuna and the idea of a life s

I'm really intrigued by how Oppenheimer understood duty through poetry and spiritual texts. It's fitting he so deeply related to Arjuna and the idea of a life structured by action. That is, one's duty to act in a certain way, with consequences holding lower priority. Sobering stuff. As noted in the article, Historian James A. Hijiya proposed that Oppenheimer believed “It was the duty of the scientists to build the bomb, but it was the duty of the statesman to decide whether or how to use it.” Escalating from "I just work here" to "It's my existential duty" is a dangerous game to play, but I suppose it was a dangerous time. I'm writing this comment from my university's library, so I checked out the stacks and found a book for those interested in learning more about this from a philosophical standpoint: Oppenheimer's Choice: Reflections from Moral Philosophy (2006) by Richard Mason. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292499015_Oppenheimer%27s_choice_Reflections_from_moral_philosophy https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292499015_Oppenheim...