Ugh. Thank you for the ping. All too representative of how many folk then and now I fear.
WOW. Somehow I never noticed that General Leslie Groves ended his memoirs by comparing the creation of the atomic bomb with the "Indian wars" that had "won the West." Which he saw as a positive thing. @NuclearAnthropic.twitter.com/THv9r6hic5
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This 1963 ad is jaw dropping.
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Could have said the same thing with a Redcoat or a Nazi vis a vis degree minutes and a running target and been much less problematic. Of course upper management having often been Nazis might have had a problem with it.
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well yes, lots of paperclips flying around
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"Where the scenery's attractive and the air is radioactive...Oh, the Wild West is where I wanna be!" #TomLehrer#ColdWarhttps://youtu.be/3LuXCkibX-k
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Well that sort of explains a lot of ads Sandia was putting out in Physics Today back in the 1950s and 60s....
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A bit more complex. both LeMay and the Sandia folk & the associated ad agencies were partaking of and helping to create a broader social milieu. In addition, as I have written and argued in my talks, Sandia & its ad agency were drawing on particularly local imaginaries.
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Every time I read those memoirs, I find something new. Both surprising and somehow entirely expected.
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That awful empty feeling when you realize there's no one left to kill.
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"...He is capable of accomplishing virtually anything." Yes, including destroying himself.
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"what was left for me (and peers) to do". If I heard this at a cocktail party I would certainly ask for elaboration. Unless you're limiting the search to include only lawful killing as action items, that list is f*g long and hasn't shrunk much in 75 years.
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Yeah. wow indeed. What an ugly passage.
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wow, I’d not read this. that’s quite something
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That doesn’t seem surprising from a guy born in the 19th century, does it?
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It points to just how deeply Turner's "Closing of the American Frontier" & the changes it spoke of influenced the American Century
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