Tonight, we will discuss at-large the current film based on the biography American Prometheus.These quotes offer two points of departure:

We knew the world would not be the same. Few people laughed. Few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer [NBC documentary, The Decision to Drop the Bomb, 1965]

The thread by which our fate hangs is wearing thin. Not nature, but the “genius of mankind,” has knotted the hangman’s noose with which it can execute itself at any moment. … We have experienced things so unheard of and so staggering that the question of whether such things are in any way reconcilable with the idea of a good God has become burningly topical.

— C. G. Jung [Answer to Job, par734/736, 1952]