Americans take for granted a few basic facts about nuclear weapons. They shouldn’t.
Dan Kois: The centerpiece of the movie is the first Trinity test, which seems gigantic on an IMAX screen. How does a typical bomb in 2023 compare in strength to that test?The average bomb in one of the U.S. arsenals, let’s say, is somewhere between five times and 30 times bigger than what was used in the Trinity test, which was the same size as the Hiroshima bomb. We have some in our arsenal that are over a megaton, so 80 times bigger than what we dropped in Hiroshima.
I guess some people still do. You don’t agree with the idea that nuclear weapons are an insurer of peace, as opposed to an eventual destroyer of the world. It’s true that the film depicts Oppenheimer’s later conviction that arms control and regulation is what is needed. But it’s also true that that he spends a lot of the movie talking about how the scientists don’t get a role in what the government does with it.You pursue the science. That’s your job. And then it’s not up to you to figure out how to utilize it.
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