If the term “Pandora’s box” was ever applicable to a scientific breakthrough, the Manhattan Project’s detonation of the first atomic bomb in the summer of 1945 would have to be a frontrunner alongside genetic editing, super colliders, and artificial intelligence.
At first, I totally read that title as of a tiny Christopher Nolan belonging to Oppenheimer said the quote, and not the director of a film called Oppenheimer. I’ve been awake too long.