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Asked who the special Soren was in this college physics notebook from 1972 and my mother sighed deeply and said "Kierkegaard"

Photo by Ara Güler. 1956

my hot take on the awful nuclear war movie discourse is that i do actually think there is a way to create a critical but sympathetic biopic abt the jewish leftist/communist scientists involved in the manhatten project, who at the moment of 1942 did earnestly (and had reason to) view themselves as part of an urgent struggle against global nazism, and which can cut thru the usamerican imperialist apologia hero-fetish impulse and lay bare the genocidal devastations left in the wake of continuing us counterinsurgent militarism across the continent and pacific (which means addressing the anticommunism!) w/o resorting to white man existentialist handwringing. such a film however, would not be politically commensurable as a bajillion dollar summer blockbuster directed by christopher nolan!

“It was due to this misconception, to this separation of science from society, of science from human beings and human lives that I came to work on the atomic bomb during the war. I believed, as did many of my colleagues, that our job as scientists went only so far as to find out the truths of nature. Anything beyond this, anything to do with the application of the knowledge we scientists discovered, was of secondary concern to us. In our study of pure science, we had no time to concern ourselves with such trifles.The application of science must be left to statesmen and engineers.

ugisfeelings:

my hot take on the awful nuclear war movie discourse is that i do actually think there is a way to create a critical but sympathetic biopic abt the jewish leftist/communist scientists involved in the manhatten project, who at the moment of 1942 did earnestly (and had reason to) view themselves as part of an urgent struggle against global nazism, and which can cut thru the usamerican imperialist apologia hero-fetish impulse and lay bare the genocidal devastations left in the wake of continuing us counterinsurgent militarism across the continent and pacific (which means addressing the anticommunism!) w/o resorting to white man existentialist handwringing. such a film however, would not be politically commensurable as a bajillion dollar summer blockbuster directed by christopher nolan!

it would require such film to face why so many american atom bomb researchers ended up as soviet spies when they realized this bomb is meant to be eventually used against ussr.

And I am ashamed to admit it took the horror of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to shock me out of this ivory tower of complacency, to shock me into the fundamental realization that there is no such thing as “pure” science; that science has a meaning only in relation to its service to mankind; only in so far as it helps to create a rich and beautiful world.

I say to those scientists, both in Japan and the United States who even now are still engaged in research on atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs and bacteriological warfare: Think again what it is you are doing! You may believe that you are gaining scientific fame by the papers marked “secret” which you are now filing away in the safes of the U.S. Army, but this is utterly false and shameful fame is an illusion, which will soon be trampled to dust by the hatred of the peoples of the whole world.”

Joan Hinton (Chinese name Han Chun) addressing the Asia-Pacific Peace Conference in Beijing, October 1952. She worked at the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos and had witnessed the Trinity test. This marked her first public appearance since 1948 when she left her position at the Institute of Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago to witness the revolutionary struggle in China. Hinton and her husband, Erwin Engst, subsequently dedicated their remaining lives to advancing Chinese agricultural collectivization and mechanization.

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during most anticipated tennis clash of 2023 between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz at Roland Garros, an artist was unknowingly pictured painting the court and spectators while the match was ongoing.