The Age of the Bomb: Fear of Annihilation
America was responsible for the existence of nuclear age with the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. The inauguration of this new era was epitomized by the bomb’s principal creator, J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” Since then, the era of atom has become the age of the bomb? or two bombs, Atomic and Hydrogen. Three weeks latercame the US nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and with them ending of the second world war, triggering the cold war transforming the … Continue reading The Age of the Bomb: Fear of Annihilation
