Peter Hoskin

How the nuclear age bombed Our discoveries in the subatomic realm promised to yield wonders. Instead, 80 years on from the first atomic bomb, a dark shadow has been cast across ...

“Never once is it implied that it might be worse to be struck by an atom bomb than to make one.”

@pghoskin.bsky.social on how Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER turned nuclear scientists into brooding superheroes:

In which I am rightly mean about Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER…