I felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it’s there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles — this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.
Freeman Dyson (1923-2020) English-American theoretical physicist, mathematician, futurist
In Jon Else, dir., The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb, Part 2 (1981)
(Source)


Pingback: A Thermonuclear Hair Trigger
Pingback: I worked up close with thermonuclear weapons — building new ones is insane | Parlour News
Pingback: I worked up close with thermonuclear weapons — building new ones is insane – USA NEWS
Pingback: I worked up close with thermonuclear weapons — building new ones is insane – Uromi Voice
Pingback: I worked up close with thermonuclear weapons — building new ones is insane - The Recruiter Collective
Pingback: Have We Normalized Nuclear War? - America’s News. 24/7.