And we will all be blown away
Huzzah! Today is the anniversary of atomic boom day! [Link]
Courtesy of our friends at Encyclopedia Britannica. The reminder, that is, the actuality is courtesy, of course, by the wild and crazy folks led by Leslie Groves and Robert Oppenheimer, including Richard Feynman.
Makes you think about all those poor folks who died from painting the glow-in-the-dark numerals on watch faces.
Also Pierre Curie, who died under the wheels of a beer wagon.
And the Duke of Clarence, who died from an excess of Malmsey.
If we want to go further astray, Roentgen’s wife.
But not, perhaps, those folks who get killed in automobile wrecks caused by the other guy driving and phoning.
Makes you rather yearn for the good old days when physicians had no idea of what killed 0.9 of the population until after they were dead and could be cut open.
