Some pieces of writing are just little masterpieces. It's what I consider
this piece by
Jeremy Bernstein in the
NY Review of Books blog to be. Its about witnessing two test explosions of nuclear weapons. It's chillingly understated. And worth your time. Won't take long to read it.
2 comments:
Thanks for the article.
I read a lot about the A-bombs.
As I've mentioned, the overwhelming superiority it gave to the USA at the end of WWII was the beginning of the boom that began to wind down in the 1980s - and then had to be artificially maintained by lower and lower interest rates.
It is a truly important event in so many ways: paradigm for economic socialism (Manhattan Project and subsequent military-industrial complex), history, morals, art...
I believe it has influenced ourlives here as greatly as the Shoah directed the steps of the Israelis...these symbolic events have a real presence in our lives.
Oh, absotively. The Bomb hovers over all of us like some malignant predator alien. We have all lived with it hovering, we know its shadow, but it's so forbidding and terrifying a presence, we simply pretend it's not there.
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