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Robert Oppenheimer in 1965 on if the bomb was necessary

In a 1965 interview with CBS News, J. Robert Oppenheimer said about the atomic bomb, "The ending of the war by this means, certainly cruel, was not undertaken lightly.

But I am not, as of today, confident that a better course was then open. I have not a very good answer to this question."

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