Richard Rhodes Quote
Oppenheimer was surprised and impressed. When Roosevelt died, he told an audience late in life, he had felt a terrible bereavement . . . partly because we were not sure that anyone in Washington would be thinking of what needed to be done in the future. Now he saw that Colonel Stimson was thinking hard and seriously about the implications for mankind of the thing we had created and the wall into the future that we had breached.
Richard Rhodes
Oppenheimer was surprised and impressed. When Roosevelt died, he told an audience late in life, he had felt a terrible bereavement . . . partly because we were not sure that anyone in Washington would be thinking of what needed to be done in the future. Now he saw that Colonel Stimson was thinking hard and seriously about the implications for mankind of the thing we had created and the wall into the future that we had breached.
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Rhodes has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation among others. Rhodes is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He also frequently gives lectures and talks on a broad range of subjects, including testimony to the U.S. Senate on nuclear energy.