After Oppenheimer crumbled in the Oval Office, confessing to President Truman that he felt he had blood on his hands, Truman waited until Oppie reached the door and dismissed him as a "cry baby scientist." The moment crystallizes how the political establishment responds to conscience: once the weapon works, moral anguish becomes an inconvenience to be mocked, not a warning to be heeded.
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