Oppenheimer
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Oppenheimer is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between September 03, 2024 and September 19, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as ““Einstein and Oppenheimer made the A-bomb.””; “he’d advocated to President Roosevelt the merits of Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb”. It most often appears alongside San Francisco, 1980s, 1987.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: September 03, 2024
- Last seen: September 19, 2025
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Related Pages
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- San Francisco (2 shared issues)
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- 1980s (1 shared issues)
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- 1987 (1 shared issues)
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- 1988 (1 shared issues)
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- Adleman (1 shared issues)
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- AHIRC (1 shared issues)
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- Air Force One (1 shared issues)
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- anal probing (1 shared issues)
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- Andy van Dam (1 shared issues)
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- Anglophone countries (1 shared issues)
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- Ann Arbor (1 shared issues)
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- Anthropic (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
“All the good superweapons are invented by Jews. Einstein and Oppenheimer made the A-bomb. Teller and von Neumann made the H-bomb. Samuel Cohen made the neutron bomb, Leo Szilard made the cobalt bomb, et cetera. Even the world-destroying AIs are being invented by Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, et cetera.”
As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, he’d won World War II. His proximity fuse intercepted hundreds of V-1s and destroyed thousands of tanks, carving a path for Allied forces through the French countryside. Back in 1942, he’d advocated to President Roosevelt the merits of Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb. Roosevelt and his congressional allies snuck hundreds of millions in covert funding to the OSRD’s planned projects in Oak Ridge and Los Alamos. Writing directly and secretively to Bush, a one-line memo in June expressed Roosevelt’s total confidence in his Director: “Do you have the money?”