No question that he had gone quite thoroughly insane by the end. That's very often the price paid for genius, unfortunately.
Robert Oppenheimer was a radical leftist and avowed communist, and is suspected of selling nuclear secrets to the Soviets, but that doesn't lessen his one, overwhelmingly important achievement: the Manhattan Project.
I understand your viewpoint, though I tend to see Fischer as a tortured soul rather than an evil anti-American. Matter of perspective, I suppose.
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Fischer declared, in the hours after the 9/11 attacks: ‘This is all wonderful news. I want to see the US wiped out.’
This is not someone I want to rest in peace...
PeteK
No question that he had gone quite thoroughly insane by the end. That's very often the price paid for genius, unfortunately.
Robert Oppenheimer was a radical leftist and avowed communist, and is suspected of selling nuclear secrets to the Soviets, but that doesn't lessen his one, overwhelmingly important achievement: the Manhattan Project.
I understand your viewpoint, though I tend to see Fischer as a tortured soul rather than an evil anti-American. Matter of perspective, I suppose.
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