Posted on 07/16/2025 9:38:35 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
Eighty years ago today, in the early morning at a place called Trinity in the desert outside Alamagordo in the New Mexico desert, a new star arose from the landscape.
It was not a natural phenomenon. This unprecedented display of light and heat, brighter than two suns as one observer said, was a thing engineered by the minds of men. It was seen for hundreds of miles in every direction.
"I am become death, destroyer of worlds," project lead Robert Oppenheimer uttered when he beheld the culmination of years of research. Physicist Kenneth Bainbridge perhaps summed it up better: "Now we are all sons of bitches."
Man had at last seized the power of God in the palm of his hand. The atomic age was upon us. And nothing would ever be the same again...
Remembering the first nuclear explosion, July 16th 1945.
LOL. I'd say antibiotics, vaccines, the end of public health scourges like typhus, diphtheria, tuberculosis and polio, far more capable emergency rooms, far better surgical techniques, significantly better treatment of chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes.
If you want to go back before 1945, the biggest difference in extending life was treating sewage and providing clean drinking water. That saved millions of lives over the years.
“I am become death, destroyer of worlds,” project lead Robert Oppenheimer uttered when he beheld the culmination of years of research.
Then he and others gave the Russians the plans on making the atom bomb....
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