"I
am become death the shatterer of worlds"
The
Bhagavad-Gita
"Those
who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana
George
Santayana (1863-1952), US philosopher, poet. Life of Reason, "Reason in
Common Sense," Ch12 (1905-6). William L. Shirer used this quote as an epigraph
in his The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1959)
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Microsoft Encatra 1995
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The
Ivy Mike Test
November
1, 1952
The
succesful explosion of the United States first thermonuclear weapon ushered
in a age of fear previously unknown to man.
The
weapon's expolsive yield was 10.4 Megatons, the equivalent of 1000 times
the explosive force of the weapon used on Hiroshima.
The
force of the explosion vaporized the small Pacific island of Elugelab.
Man
now possessed the tool of his own destruction.
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