Chapter 70: The Devil Crying (10)

Zorn seemed to be very familiar with Oppenheimer, and he was not polite when he entered the door, and he said straight to the point: "Sir, I'm afraid you need to know about something." ”

Although Zorn must have had something important to do when he came to him in the evening, Oppenheimer was not in a hurry, he took out a box of ten good brand cigarettes from his pocket, took one out and handed it to Zorn, then lit one himself and smoked it. At all times, Oppenheimer has such a calm temperament.

Under the influence of Oppenheimer, Zon also lit a cigarette and took a puff, slowed down his voice and said: "Sir, today when I was offline in the duty room of the monitoring department of the engineering area, I accidentally saw a record. Zon paused: "It's about one of the mainland computing personnel who arrived at the lab about a week ago, and his behavior is some... Particularly. ”

Oppenheimer nodded, motioning for Zorn to continue.

According to the written records of the monitoring department, since he moved into the dormitory, he would cry alone facing the west wall every night at about this point. ”

Hearing this, Oppenheimer's brow furrowed, and he took a puff of his cigarette and fell into deep thought.

Oppenheimer has countless labels, scientist, patriot, leader, father of the atomic bomb, etc., but for himself, there are two identities that are the most important, and these two identities are not what everyone imagines, one is a husband and the other is a father. In fact, Oppenheimer didn't care about either of them, and one of the two most important identities for him was Jewish.

Oppenheimer was born in a German Jewish family, he has a Jew's signature brown hair and a smart mind, his father immigrated to New York with the whole family very early, and later made a fortune by engaging in the textile industry。

The above conjecture is actually very logical, most parents struggle for the purpose of their lives to let their children live a better life, not to let their children work as hard as themselves and finally succeed. Of course, it's right to think like this, just like what is said in Hong Kong dramas, the most important thing to be a person is to be happy.

But Oppenheimer is a Jewish people, this people has experienced too many expulsions and exclusions in history, and thinking of danger in times of peace has become their instinct that penetrates into their bones, Oppenheimer's father is not used to him, his mother is a genius painter, the couple has been teaching Oppenheimer by example since childhood: his father does not gamble, is not lustful, does not swell, and works until late at night for his family and career; his mother cares for him with a woman's delicate mind and the painter's sensitivity to art and feelings, all of which finally make Oppenheimer what he is today。 If Jews were very educational, Oppenheimer's parents were the best of them.

All in all, the 40-year-old Oppenheimer was definitely a man who was imbued with the Jewish spirit from the point of view of nationality, and although he had not experienced suffering in his life, he could empathize with his compatriots and even outsiders who had suffered so much.

Such a person naturally knew that Yu Zecheng's behavior of crying every night facing the wall of the West was a ritual unique to Jews, the Wailing Wall.

The practice of the Jewish Wailing Wall has a long history, dating back to the Jewish holy sites in Jerusalem. The Wailing Wall, also known as the Western Wall and the "Wall of Sighs," has been used for thousands of years by Jews from all corners of the world to whisper prayers and weep in exile when they return to the holy city of Jerusalem.

Originally, the Wailing Wall ritual was an irregular national act, but at the beginning of World War II, when the German Nasmads began mass murder of Jews, Jews who fled to various parts of the world spontaneously wept every night facing the western wall in order to commemorate their persecuted compatriots and remind themselves that they should never forget this hatred.

Ever since Yu Zecheng arrived at the Los Alamos lab and found that he was under strict surveillance, he imitated the Jewish Wailing Wall behavior every night to attract the attention of the monitors, believing that sooner or later his particular behavior would be known to Oppenheimer, and this was Yu Zecheng's purpose: to get close to Oppenheimer.

Isn't Yu Zecheng afraid of being discovered by others? This possibility is relatively low, because the act of the Wailing Wall itself has not long been formed, and even the Jews themselves may not be able to guarantee that everyone knows about it, and it is even less likely that people who do not know why will know the special meaning of this act.

So, since Zorn knew about this special ritual, was he also Jewish?

Zorn was not Jewish, but he was Oppenheimer's man, and not only him, but nearly 20% of the staff in the Los Alamos laboratory were Oppenheimer's people, because Oppenheimer was not only a Jew, but also a proletarian preacher.

Oppenheimer himself was born into a family of capitalist practitioners, worked for the lighthouse state of the capitalist world as an adult, and was deeply trusted by the top level of the United States, such a person would be a proletarian?

Although it is difficult to believe, this is a fact, and the reason for this is naturally a very complex story with many factors, and in a simple way, Oppenheimer's mother died of illness when Oppenheimer was nine years old, which is unfortunate, but objectively speaking, it is not a human tragedy that can make people change their temperament.

But the problem is that Oppenheimer is too smart, the most prominent sign of a smart person is that he can draw inferences, a stupid person doesn't know how powerful a bee is until he is stung by a bee, and a smart person can intuitively feel the danger just by the buzzing sound of the bees when they gather, and so on, understand that there are many characters in insects that are not easy to mess with.

This is the talent, Oppenheimer's death from the mother's death, in addition to deep sadness, also triggered his thinking about life and science and philosophy, gradually, the nine-year-old child learned how to stand on a higher level to think about problems, to put it in layman's terms, is that the death of his mother turned an already very intelligent child into a child prodigy.

Although this is the dream of many parents who want their children to become Jackie Chan in contemporary China, please believe that it is definitely not a good thing to be too premature.

Putting aside well-known examples such as hurt Zhongyong, the most important thing in life should be to live a happy life, even if this happiness is low-level and kept in the dark, because when a person's thinking level is higher and higher, more and more out of touch with the people around him, people will feel lonely deep in the bone marrow, and at the same time, when a person is getting closer and closer to the ultimate truth, his heart will not only not become thorough, but will fall into deeper confusion, unless you really have the confidence to touch the ultimate truth, otherwise you will forever fall into endless doubts, until crazy。

Fortunately, Oppenheimer's Jewish resilience and the love from his father did not lead him to a fork in the road, and Oppenheimer's life was normal until 1925, going to university step by step, then graduating, and then going to Europe for further study.

In the 20th century, which can be said to belong to the century of Germany and the United States, Oppenheimer, a German-American Jew who combines the strengths of the two countries, immediately had a chemical reaction after coming to Europe again, and the result of this chemical reaction was not academic, but ideological, Oppenheimer's three views were finally finalized - freedom means responsibility and responsibility.

Of course, these three views are only a small part of the results of Oppenheimer's chemical reaction in Europe, but it is enough to explain why Oppenheimer turned to communism at a time when the shortcomings of the capitalist system were beginning to emerge and countless workers at the bottom were suffering.

Soon after he returned to China after obtaining academic achievements in theoretical physics from Europe, Oppenheimer was entrusted with important tasks by the upper echelons of the United States and became an important leader in the atomic bomb research and development project and the Manhattan Project.

Oppenheimer was very dedicated to this job, but at the same time, he also undertook the top-secret task entrusted to him by the Proletarian International, which was to preserve and steal key theoretical and experimental data on atomic bomb manufacturing technology.

Oppenheimer had his own plans for the hidden mission given to him by the Proletarian International, but in any case, Oppenheimer needed a large number of supporters in order to find information that could be used as a reference for others from the very fragmented data and theory base.

A large number of supporters, this condition seems difficult to achieve, but in fact it is not, with Oppenheimer's mind, he is very clever to separate his own purpose, and like Yu Zecheng, he achieves his goal by means of calculation.

First of all, starting with the low-level workers in the Manhattan Engineering District, no matter how miraculous the Manhattan Project was in later generations, in the final analysis, like ordinary military projects, it required a large number of basic workers, most of whom were proletarians who had been more or less exploited by the capitalists in this era in the early 20th century. Just like Zon's co-optation of Geto, it was easy to incite or prosecute these people at the bottom of society, and with the cooperation of the proletarian party in the United States, Oppenheimer's first steps went very smoothly, and he soon became the underground leader of the proletariat in Los Alamos Laboratory and the entire state of New Mexico.

Then, Oppenheimer in the Los Alamos laboratory, except for a few henchmen, does not have direct contact with those "downlines" at the bottom, they are all through these henchmen one-line contact, these downlines themselves do not know what kind of party organization they are joining, and the information they provide is also some trivial things in work, the benefits of this are obvious, not only security, but also easy for the downlines to overcome the psychological barrier of leakage.

Finally, and the most wonderful part, Oppenheimer collected the "trivial" information collected by a few henchmen through superb brain power and systems engineering ideas and methods that seemed to be dimensional reduction technology at the time, and finally got the information he wanted, even if a high-level scholar of the same level found out what Oppenheimer was doing, it was absolutely impossible to understand the secret behind Oppenheimer.