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But When You Come Right Down To It The Reason That We Did This Job Is Because It Was An Organic Necessity. If You Are A Scientist You Cannot Stop Such A Thing. If You Are A Scientist You Believe That It Is Good To Find Out How The World Works; That It Is Good To Find Out What The Realities Are; That It Is Good To Turn Over To Mankind At Large The Greatest Possible Power To Control The World And To Deal With It According To Its Lights And Values.

It Is Perfectly Obvious That The Whole World Is Going To Hell. The Only Possible Chance That It Might Not Is That We Do Not Attempt To Prevent It From Doing So.

We May Anticipate A State Of Affairs In Which Two Great Powers Will Each Be In A Position To Put An End To The Civilization And Life Of The Other, Though Not Without Risking Its Own. We May Be Likened To Two Scorpions In A Bottle, Each Capable Of Killing The Other, But Only At The Risk Of His Own Life.

I Remembered The Line From The Hindu Scripture, The Bhagavad-gita... "now I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds." I Suppose We All Thought That, One Way Or Another.

We Hunger For Nobility: The Rare Words And Acts That Harmonize Simplicity And Truth.