21st Century: Query 167 (Jackie Speier and J. Robert Oppenheimer)
“Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.” ~ Jackie Speier is an American politician who currently serves as a U.S. Representative for California’s 14th congressional district , serving in Congress since 2008. She is a member of the Democratic Party . “The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.” ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer , was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley . Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is among those who are credited with being the “father of the atomic bomb” for their role in the Manhattan Project , the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons . The first atomic bomb was successfully detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico . Oppenheimer later remarked that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita : “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of world