"The trouble with secrecy isn't that it inhibits science. ... The trouble with secrecy is that it denies to the government itself the wisdom and the resources of the whole community ... of the whole country ..."
— Secrecy

January 1, 1970

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Robert Oppenheimer, Interview by Edward R. Murrow of See It Now (January 4, 1955). (quote from 23:31 in Interview with J. Robert Oppenheimer, 2014, YouTube)