Prologue The movie Oppenheimer (Universal 2023) startled and pleased me immensely. It was a great cinematic achievement. The blinding white light and almighty rumbling thunder in the music and in the mind of Oppenheimer frightened me. The atom in Greek means that which cannot be cut. But splitting it was potentially splitting the world, destroying More

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