It's 20 years too late. It should have been done the day after Trinity.

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Oppenheimer's reply to a question on Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's efforts to urge President Lyndon Johnson to initiate talks to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, in an interview from the early 1960s. Shown in The Day After Trinity (1981)

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