The Atomic Age

First nuclear bomb explosion with a quick clip of a J. Robert Oppenheimer interview.

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[Bellavista26]

linkin park the radiance

[FeralRush]

Geniuses should be celebrated, not have their creations corrupted to instruments of destruction. 

[chaco916]

OMG!! Do people really have any clue what you are talking about, like the historical context of all this, and the beyond-profound moral implications and consequences? eeg10 speaks of JRO's "overly dramatic expression and the hint of a smirk, it's obvious that the cold war was fun times for scientists and politicians." eeg10 is kidding, right, I hope? Isn't it obvious that JRO is heartbroken about the monster he has helped to create--and which will eventually destroy him, and maybe us?

[bigmoemiami]

Elect Newt Gingrich as your president and this scenario is likely to occur.

[PoptartInvasion]

I don't know if there is anyone in all of human history that I pity more than that man, using his brilliance to guide our country to what he thought would be a decisive end to that war, only to live the rest of his life in fear, shame, and guilt for the terrible power he had unleashed upon the world. The only way I can imagine to truly honor his memory is the steps being taken to dismantle all nuclear arsenals. I imagine he would be grateful beyond words. I wished he had lived to see it...

[eeg10]

@hr1100 Trust me, if a nuke falls down on a research lab, or a governing building, no one would be happy. Kennedy worked his ass of to stop the nuclear confrontation in Cuba, Oppenheimer openly campaigned against research and development of nuclear material after manhattan. Yes there may be the McCarthys and those exploiting the fear, but it was a very real fear that permeated all levels of human society. Nuclear matters are never to be taken lightly.

[eeg10]

@hr1100 Also, this is how natural selection is supposed to work. There is an extinction event, but the extinction event does not kill every strain of an organism, certain strains have a slight resistance. By interbreeding, the resistance is strengthened and a new species is developed. That's how flu evolves each year and why people take flu shots each year. What I am saying is that there is a possibility that this could occur with radiation too, but no one has tried so no one knows for sure.

[eeg10]

@hr1100 It's really impossible to attain probabilities of what scenarios would be most likely to occur as a result because we have a very small amount of information to base estimates on. Factors such as climate change, radiation, etc. means we don't even know if the rate of death is linearly or exponenetially proportional to the number or proximity of nuclear warheads dropped. I'm just saying making conclusions off of unconfirmed hypothesis and a small data set is bad science.

[hr1100]

@eeg10 (...) Actually, even the microcosmos would suffer, since ionizing radiation just kills living cells, which is life.

By pure chance, it's more likely to perish just by not washing our hands all that often and having unlimited sex (love) with everyone in the world (and the North Koreans), all that in a time of eternal peace, love, harmony, bliss. Life's duality is very nasty.

[hr1100]

@eeg10 By Oppenheimer's overly dramatic expression and the hint of a smirk, it's obvious that the cold war was fun times for scientists and politicians. But highly irritating for the common tax payer.

The bubonic plague came about at times when people didn't knew of the Atom (unaware of microorganisms as well?) and it was deadly. If we're faced with total fallout, we'll die from the radiation and broken genetic code, not from some mutated super-organism. (cont...)

[eeg10]

@hr1100 Who knows, perhaps nuclear radiation would cause the mutation and evolution of some dangerous and highly resilient pathogen that would kill off the entire human species. Everything is uncertain as to what could happen in such an unlikely situation. Remember that this speech was made during the Cold war, when things back then, as to how politicians may treat the subject, was very uncertain and at times, frightening. Today, it's much different, although the fear lingers.