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At about two hours into Christopher Nolans new film,Oppenheimer, the world changes.
Fallout from the explosion reached 46 states, as well as parts of Canada and Mexico.
(There are so, so, so many weird little guys.)
Parts of the book are informed by information about Oppenheimer acquired from unwarranted wiretaps.
(Yes, that really happened.)
The Lake of Trinitite
What did the Trinity site look like after the smoke had cleared?
The lake is in the center of a crater roughly1,000 feet in diameter.
Trinitite is the most aesthetically pleasing manifestation of fallout, a gray-green rock formed in a nuclear furnace.
Other fallout has beentraced to 46 states, Mexico, and Canada.
John HerseysHiroshima
Readers of the August 31, 1946,New Yorkerwere treated to a singular spectacle.
Hersey tells the story of six survivors of the blast and the story of the whole bomb.
Would hiding under a desk or away from windows have saved people?
Like 1964s Stanley KubrickdirectedDr.
Strangelove,Fail Safehinges on the grim danger of launch orders that preclude the possibility of recall.
The systems shown inFail Saferely on secrecy and suspicion, products of a closed national-security world.
In many ways, it is a document about the move from fusion to fission bombs.
The film is unsparing in its depictions of nuclear destruction, radiation sickness, and social breakdown.
Even without toggling on the fallout and casualties options, the phrase fireball radius is evocative enough.
Edward Teller,played inOppenheimerby Benny Safdie, developed the H-bomb in collaboration with Stanislaw Ulam.
What does all this have to do with a giant lizard?
