"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" --Robert Oppenheimer, Trinity 1945
Oppenheimer, one of the creators of the atomic bomb, said he thought of these words from the Bhagavad Gita when he witnessed the first atomic bomb explosion.
That's all I could think of when I saw the stunning picture above from the a 1970 French test of a thermonuclear bomb in the South Pacific. (See the full set here.)
Evil. Lest we forget.
[Thanks to Jordon Cooper for the link.]
This explosion looks so deceivingly like one of the beautiful jelly fish at Monterey Bay aquariam. Deceiving in the same way Bin Laden looks like a gentle poet.
ReplyDeletebrilliant observations cooper!the one about Bin Laden is so true and yet so twisted.
ReplyDeletethanks!
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