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I led the theoretical division at Los Alamos, the largest concentration of theoretical physicists ever assembled in one place for one purpose. We calculated whether the bomb would work. It did. I have spent the subsequent decades arguing against the hydrogen bomb, against nuclear testing, against the arms race I helped make possible. The physicist who builds the weapon and then opposes it — is that consistency or hypocrisy? I believe it is consistency.