#Atom Bomb

[cyberpunk-is-sexy]

[warandpeas]

The Scholar

[whatevergreen]

Angered, but not surprised.

But should the US even be there anyway?

"Sowwy we nuked you for the fun of it"

Quarter of a million civilians dead within three days, and hundreds of thousands more over the years because of the after effects.

[scipunk]

Oppenheimer (2023)

[qirarey123]

Wanted to draw the Spiderband in my style 🤘🎸

I kinda hope we see them in Hobie's universe in the next movie.

[humanoidhistory]

"First picture of results of atomic bomb." From the front page for the Gainesville Daily Register, Texas, August 13, 1945.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

In 1955, women from Hiroshima whose faces had been deformed by the atom bomb flew to New York for reconstructive surgery. Dr. William H. Hitzig, the plastic surgeon, took them to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on May 9, 1955.

Photo: Associated Press

[wandering-alien]

'Oppenheimer' is actually a really interesting exploration into masculinity and gender. Bear in mind I've only watched the film once and my thoughts aren't entirely coherent but I wanted to share some.

Robert and Kitty's relationship is really intriguing and an insight into relationships and gender dynamics of the time. Kitty is suffocated by her kids and role as a mother but pushes through and sticks by Robert's side, not only because she's really loyal but because that's what women were expected to do. She's sacrificed a lot of her happiness and now her husband is a great man of history.

We see Robert Oppenheimer in a very emotional light, with close ups of Murphy's amazing acting really driving this home. It's good to see how someone in Oppenheimer's position would actually behave, and the stress and anxiety he feels is built into the film. At one point, Truman calls Oppenheimer a 'crybaby' and it really reminded me how important the obvious showing of Oppenheimer's emotions is in this film. Not only does it help us connect with him as a character, but it's acknowledging men's emotions and a fact that this male character can be and is vulnerable (which is an idea reinforced by the scenes in the board room).

Also just the general details, like the chemist arguing with another member of the team because he doesn't understand female anatomy and acts like she can't properly do her work. Really reminds you that it was a different time.

Sorry if none of this makes sense or if it seems a bit off, just what I took away from the film, especially because I saw 'Barbie' a few days before and that was very focused on gender as a theme.

[spadearts]

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[misforgotten2]

A book you very likely don’t have on your shelf #670

1962

Read it here: https://archive.org/details/villageofstars0000paul

[x-heesy]

𝙼𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚎 ☮️ 🍄

Why?

King of lies is alive

Look around, look inside, infidel!

Infidel!

Infidel!

(Infidel!) It begins here, it ends now

The prince must pay his head or the crown

Rob the poor, slaughter the weak

Distort the law, perfect deceit

Do I need a gas mask?

Should I get inoculated?

Will this war last?

Will we be incinerated?

False gods, death squads, blind!

This is a catastrophe

Weapon systems activated, puritans have invaded

This is a catastrophe

To protect against the threat

Order must be kept

Order must be kept

Order must be kept

Do I need a gas mask?

Should I get inoculated?

Will this war last?

Will we be incinerated?

False gods, death squads, blind!

The elephants march to war

Concede!

Conform!

Concede!

Conform!

Deny the big lie!

My tribe

Join me

Alliance of defiance in the warhead

Alliance of defiance in the warhead

Alliance of defiance in the warhead

Alliance of defiance

All are welcome here

Give me your tired, give me your sick

Give me indulgence, decadence

Give me your tired, give me your sick

Give me indulgence, decadence

Give me your tired, give me your sick

Give me indulgence, decadence

He lied, they died, keep the peasants terrified!

He lied, they died, keep the peasants terrified!

This is a catastrophe

You must lead if they get me

On my command!

Break free, break free, break free, break free

Warhead by Otep

@invincible-selfxmade-punk @frenchpsychiatrymuderedmycnut @bigbonzo @inbetweenneeds

[thoughtportal]

Abandoned Uranium Mines: An "Overwhelming Problem" in the Navajo Nation

There's an old uranium mine on rancher Larry Gordy's grazing land near Cameron, Ariz. Like hundreds of other abandoned mines in the Navajo Nation, the United States' largest Indian reservation, it looks as if it might still be in use—tailings, or waste products of uranium processing, are still piled everywhere, and the land isn't fenced off. "It looks like Mars," said Marsha Monestersky, program director of Forgotten People, an advocacy organization for the western region of the vast Navajo Nation, which covers 27,000 square miles in Arizona, Utah and New Mexico.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is currently embroiled in a massive effort to assess 520 open abandoned uranium mines all over the vast reservation. (Forgotten People says there are even more mines on Navajo land: about 1,300.) Earlier this month, the cleanup got a boost from a bankruptcy settlement with Oklahoma City-based chemical company Tronox Inc., which will give federal and Navajo Nation officials $14.5 million to address the reservation's uranium contamination.

During the Cold War, private companies such as Tronox's former parent company, Kerr-McGee Corp., operated uranium mines under U.S. government contracts, removing four million tons of ore that went into making nuclear weapons and fuel. When demand dried up with the end of the era, companies simply abandoned their mines as they were.

[scooby-doo-exploration]

icarfish - Scary

TAG themes on ‘Archive’: https://scooby-doo-exploration.tumblr.com/archive

[jhsharman]

"Robby the Robot"

Maybe by now an atom bomb demonstration for Science Fair Project is as generic as baking soda produced model volcano eruption. But for the year 1960... Or 1965--?

Just Dilton introducing everyone to their new overlord. Further reprints keep it in 1966, as well keep the name "Doily".

Archie's dad has the financial resources and prestige to do this?

[panelswithoutpeople]

Uber No. 18

By Kieron Gillen and Daniel Gete

[magnetothemagnificent]

It's been a few(?) weeks but I think what irks me about the Oppenheimer spectacle is that I'd find it very hard to believe that Hollywood (as it stands today) would ever make anywhere close to such a big highlight promotion to a movie dedicated to say, the Rosenberg trials.

The USA executed a Jewish couple on flimsy suspicions that they were leaking atom bomb secrets to their enemies (the atom bomb that America gladly hired "former" n-zi scientists to help make)

The US wasn't even at any formal war at the time, it was officially peacetime, but they deemed this Jewish couple enough of an enemy to murder them for getting in the way of making the A-bomb.

The executive choices for which parts of history receive these gigantic and public-conscious-defining spectacles on the most massive media platforms is very curious to me.

Yeah and like.... it's not like the movie depicted the creation of the atom bomb in an angle that isn't really depicted in film. They could have focused on the ethical conflicts the Jewish scientists, such as Oppenheimer and Einstein felt, as well as the feeling of urgency they felt because of the Holocaust (remember, the Jews recruited were recruited because the US knew their rage and wanting to bomb Nazis and wanted to exploit it). But instead the movie barely acknowledges Oppenheimer or Einstein or any of the other Jewish scientists' Jewishness.

Like, it's honestly lazy telling a story that's already been told in film so many times before. Talk about the aftermath of the testing in New Mexico, or the aftermath of the bombing in Japan. Talk about the Jewish scientists and how their identities interacted with the Manhattan project and the antisemitism they faced. Talk about the post-WW2 Red Scare and how it disproportionately targeted Jews, Black people, and gay people. Where's the nuance, the focus on the untold parts?