I'm reading American Prometheus, the biography of Oppenheimer. First of all, it's one of the best biographies ever. The authors put in WORK. Secondly, the timeline following the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is one of the most tragic things I've read. - ThreadSky

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henryneilsen.bsky.social • 40 days ago

I'm reading American Prometheus, the biography of Oppenheimer.

First of all, it's one of the best biographies ever. The authors put in WORK.

Secondly, the timeline following the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is one of the most tragic things I've read.

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henryneilsen.bsky.social•40 days ago

Even before Germany's surrender they knew it was a device to suppress the Russians, but after the war the combination of horrific destruction and relatively low cost of production was perceived as a potentially world ending threat. Quite rightly, too.

henryneilsen.bsky.social•40 days ago

So there were a heap of memos and meetings and dissenting opinions that called for control and international agreement and they all just... Failed.

henryneilsen.bsky.social•40 days ago

We seem to keep doing this to one another. Create something and then, while we argue about how to best use it (or not use it), the most base, mean, power grabbing thing becomes the status quo.

henryneilsen.bsky.social•40 days ago

And it sucks.

I don't really have more to say about it. It just sucks. We're really bad as a species at doing things to collectively benefit our fellow man, even when we're fully aware of the destruction our choices cause.

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