Oppenheimer’s legacy: an unheeded warning for our climate

Much like the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, there is a causal link between the pollution we emit into the atmosphere, and the fatalities from climate change and natural disasters.

Atomic bombs, executed by the Manhattan Project, resulted in mushroom clouds over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima, left, and Nagasaki on Aug. 6, and Aug. 9, 1945, respectively.Photographs courtesy of Wikipedia

Opinion

BY HUGO CORDEAU

August 10, 2023

TORONTO—“Now I have become death, the destroyer of worlds." This quote originates from the Bhagavad Gita and has been popularized by the film Oppenheimer as American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer showed remorse in an interview re...

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