CANADA'S FATAL FISSION ATTRACTION

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CANADA’S FATAL FISSION ATTRACTION

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MAY 14, 2021 PRIMARY AUTHOR PAUL MCKAY1380

(PHOTO: Canadian physicist Louis Slotin Canadian physicist Louis Slotin (in sunglasses) during final assembly of the first atomic bomb test in New Mexico, July 1945. A replica bomb core would kill him within a year. Photo: Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory)

Parables that warn about the perils of human hubris are not just confined to religious scriptures, Greek tragedies, or venerated Indigenous myths. For those that pay attention they are inscribed as math equations in our atomic age, as mere mortals blithely torque science to break billion-year-old bonds of physics.

Robert Oppenheimer, who led the American effort to build the bombs detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, invoked an ancient Sanskrit warning as he watched the first nuclear fireball explode at a remote desert test site only weeks before. “Now I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds,” he murmured. [ https://theenergymix.com/2021/05/14/can ... ttraction/ ]

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