the scientists called it The Bomb, capitalizing it like God. is there anything more surreal or divine than to crush the world under your fist? is there anything more human than to ascend, abuse, destroy? do you think they realized what they'd done?
animal breaks Creation, adam usurps Creator, radioactive, reeling, resplendent - i hope for a nuclear future; not desolation, no horsemen, but clean air, man-made Providence. there's something beautiful about evolving, becoming more than animal, living past hope or good sense. i am become god, bringer of life; i want to live to see the atom split, not for death, but for light.
"Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds" - J. Robert Oppenheimer after witnessing the first test of the atom bomb