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Oppenheimer, Unredacted: Part II – Reading the Lost Transcripts

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I'm looking forward to reading this, Oppenheimer was a very rare breed of intellectual.

He learned Sanskrit in order to read Eastern religious texts in their original forms. When he famously quoted the Bhagavad Gita[0] that's thought to be his own translation of it which astounds me.

[0] - http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/05/23/oppenheimer-gita/

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