Yuppie Oppie Oppie Oh!
(ca-buuuuuuuuuuuuuuum.)
(depois, silêncio.)
Fica a frase do filme:
“I'm not a scientist anymore. I'm a goddamn functionary.” (Julius Robert Oppenheimer "Oppie")
* Litlle boy and Fat man são os nomes das bombas atómicas lançadas sobre Hiroshima e Nagasaki em 1945. Foram talvez também as outras duas bombas, Doctor Oppenheimer e General Graves, que levaram até ao fim a sua construção.
(filme: Fat Man and Little Boy, Roland Joffé, EUA, 1989; ontem, no TAGV.)
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livro recentemente saído na Editorial Bizâncio "Einstein e Oppenheimer - o significado do génio" de Silvan Schweber
excerto sobre a liderança do projecto Manhattan, em Los Alamos, que conduziu à construção das primeiras bombas atómicas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb13ynu3Iac <- J. Robert Oppenheimer: "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
J. Robert Oppenheimer speaks those famous words.
(This video was posted on the 66th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.)
In Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan author A.C. Grayling examines the morality of Allied air attacks on civilians during WWII.
He is joined by Christopher Hitchens, the author of Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays to debate whether the targeting of civilians can be justified in times of war.
This event was hosted by the Goethe-Institut in Washington, DC.
VIDEO: http://fora.tv/2006/04/20/Among_the_Dead_Cities <- [April 20, 2006]
alternative video source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3doYSqBWhZI <- [April 20, 2006]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IqKdf6In_k <- Some of the greatest advances in science have come from humanity's more destructive impulses. This is not the fault of science - when we discover powerful truths about the universe it's up to us to decide how to use them because they can either be boons or banes to the world. There may be no better example of this than the work done by the Manhattan Project - the years long, multinational effort to develop an atomic bomb during World War II. The project created unfathomably destructive weapons and led to a 50 year Cold War with the USSR, but is also the source of a lot of information about the atom we didn't have before, which has led to advances in many beneficial fields, like energy production and medicine. Science, like history, is always complicated.
References for this episode can be found here: http://dft.ba/-4WtS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4B3aNKVspM <- [July 21, 2009] Physicist Freeman Dyson joins Bob Kittle of the San Diego Union-Tribune for a conversation on genomes, global warming (climate changes), nuclear weapons, biological weapons, the space program, computers and the future of biotechnology, theology/religion and science, Soviet Union Invasion of Manchuria in World War 2 "versus" Hiroshima/Nagasaki. (Weapons: Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, George Bush Sr., Barack Obama) etc etc etc...
http://www.blog.markloiseau.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/tsar_bomba.jpg <- Tzar Bomba, Bravo, Mike, Trinity, Hiroshima, ...
Mais informação em http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzar_bomba
Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бомба; "Tsar Bomb") is the nickname for the AN602 hydrogen bomb, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Its October 30, 1961 test remains the most powerful artificial explosion in human history. It was also referred to as Kuz'kina Mat' (Russian: Кузькина мать, Kuzka's mother),[1] referring to Nikita Khrushchev's promise to show the United States a "Kuz'kina Mat'" at the 1960 United Nations General Assembly. The famous Russian idiom, which has been problematic for translators, equates roughly with the English “We’ll show you!” Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb had the yield of 57 megatons of TNT (240 PJ). Only one bomb of this type was ever officially built and it was tested on October 30, 1961, in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, at Sukhoy Nos.[2][3]
The remaining bomb casings are located at the Russian Atomic Weapon Museum, Sarov (Arzamas-16), and the Museum of Nuclear Weapons, All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics, Snezhinsk (Chelyabinsk-70). Neither of these casings has the same antenna configuration as the device that was tested.
Many names are attributed to the Tsar Bomba in the literature: Project 7000; product code 202 (Izdeliye 202); article designations RDS-220 (РДС-220), RDS-202 (РДС-202), RN202 (PH202), AN602 (AH602); codename Vanya; nicknames Big Ivan, Tsar Bomba, Kuz'kina Mat'. The term "Tsar Bomba" was coined in an analogy with two other massive Russian objects: the Tsar Kolokol (Tsar Bell), the world's largest bell, and the Tsar Pushka (Tsar Cannon), the world's largest cannon. The CIA denoted the test as "JOE 111".[4]
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