<link href="css/hmh.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:621812e1-6c88-431d-949a-f62112404a18" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body><a id="p228"/><a id="p229"/> <h1 class="PN">Part IV</h1> <hr class="halfwidth"/> <h1 class="chaptertitle parttitle">June–July 1945</h1> <blockquote class="indent3"> <p class="left "> <em>We see no acceptable alternative to direct military use.</em> </p> </blockquote> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <blockquote class="indent3"> <p class="right ">—J. Robert Oppenheimer on the atomic bomb, June 16, 1945</p> </blockquote> </body> </html>