Merkwürdiges Phänomen: so zerstörerisch und abartig die Kraft einer Atombombe auch sein mag, zu sehen wie sie explodiert, obliegt einer gewissen ästhetischen Faszination. Diese Aufnahme hier ist bei einem Test am 1. März 1954 entstanden.
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“And then there’s about 200.000 dead People, a destroyed city; Flames spreading out far as the eyes can see. Massive, inconceivable destruction”
“*sigh* Well, er… You made it ugly!”
Die Ästhetik des Schreckens
We knew the world would not be the same,
a few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.
I remember the line from the hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita.
Vishnu is trying to persuade the prince, he should do his duty,
and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says:
“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds”.
I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
Robert J. Oppenheimer’s (Father of the Atomic Bomb) speech after he saw a test of the atomic bomb.