Kurchatov
Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, knew of the devastating impact of the weapons of mass destruction he created. In the Soviet Union, there was a hydrogen bomb inventor with equal notoriety.
Goenawan Mohamad
March 25, 2024
Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.
— Robert J. Oppenheimer, after witnessing the enormity of the atomic bomb he created.
THREE months after the atomic bomb was tested in the remote Jornada del Muerto desert, Hiroshima was annihilated. Nagasaki followed soon after. The bombs were dropped on the two Japanese cities on August 6, 1945. It is estimated that more than 200,000 people perished in the attack, including victims o
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