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“It did not take atomic weapons to make man want peace. But the atomic bomb was the turn of the screw. The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.” — Robert Oppenheimer, commencement address
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