Happy Birthday - The Atomic Age
From Physicist
J. Robert Oppenheimer:
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one. Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.
From Trinity site director
Dr. Kenneth Bainbridge:
Now we are all sons-of-bitches.
Sixty Three years ago today, the first atomic bomb was exploded at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in New Mexico.
What a long strange trip it's been...
Posted by DaveH at July 16, 2008 8:41 PM
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