"In some crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose." --J. Robert Oppenheimer, nuclear scientist in a lecture, November 25, 1947 Give me water! Oh! Give me water to drink! Let me have some! I want rather to die-~- To die! Help me, 0, help me: Water! A bit of water! I beg you! Won't anyone! ... The heaven split; The streets are gone; The River, The river flowing on! ... Night! Night coming on To these eyes parched and sere; To these lips inflamed Ah! the moaning of a man Of a man Reeling, Whose face is Scorched, smarting; This ruined face of a mani" --Tamiki Hara, Hiroshima writer-poet (1905-1951), a suicide 1O1eb4