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Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer led the Manhattan Project, the program that developed the first nuclear weapon. Read about the father of the atomic bomb.

The very fact that the Gita verse resonated so deeply in Oppenheimers consciousness reveals that he was, in his heart, a pacifist, a compassionate man who wished no one harm. At the same time, his dharma as a physicist - fervently engaged in putting together a deadly bomb - did not leave him any other option than to see the four-year Manhattan project to fruition.

While EU countries are capable of initiating strong joint actions, a divide is emerging between countries with very different, even antagonistic, decarbonisation strategies.

Science is too precious to be left to clerks and regimes. One needs a playful sense of science to retain a playful attitude to power. Play allows for improvisation.

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(Archived document, may contain errors) 2 May 1977 INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES (Executive Summary)