Oppenheimer Would Not have Been Selected to Head the Manhattan Project Today
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Recently, readers might have seen “Oppenheimer” - a biopic based on the 2005 book, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. While I would recommend you to read the book this movie is based on , that is not the focus of this post. Instead, let us ask another interesting question- would somebody like Oppenheimer have ever been selected to lead any such large scientific program in 2023. As you will see, the answers to that question has a lot of relevance to my oft repeated observation about the lack of significant technological progress in West for past 2-3 decades.
Oppenheimer Would Not have Been Selected to Head the Manhattan Project Today
Oppenheimer Would Not have Been Selected to…
Oppenheimer Would Not have Been Selected to Head the Manhattan Project Today
Recently, readers might have seen “Oppenheimer” - a biopic based on the 2005 book, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. While I would recommend you to read the book this movie is based on , that is not the focus of this post. Instead, let us ask another interesting question- would somebody like Oppenheimer have ever been selected to lead any such large scientific program in 2023. As you will see, the answers to that question has a lot of relevance to my oft repeated observation about the lack of significant technological progress in West for past 2-3 decades.