Atomic Weapons are Insane
This Is Bad. (First published at freality.org, Dec 01, 2003 ) The first nuclear explosion was done by the U.S. Government at Alamogordo, New Mexico in 1945. That explosion had the explosive force of detonating 19,000 tons of TNT, also notated as 19 kilotons or 19KT. At that time, the lead scientists of the project weren't sure what the effect of the explosion would be, and there was a serious concern that it would lead to a chain reaction in the atmosphere and possibly burn off the entire atmosphere of our Earth. Thankfully, that was not the case. However, the beginning of the so-called "nuclear age" was no cause for celebration. On seeing the explosion, John Oppenheimer, the chief scientist, quoted the following passage from the religious text, the Bhagavad Gita : "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." The U.S. Government decided to use this new technology on large Japanese cities during WWII, by detonating 15KT and 22KT devices over Hiroshima and Nagas