Reviews for Uncle Phil and the Atomic Bomb

The average rating for Uncle Phil and the Atomic Bomb based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-04-13 00:00:00 Andrew Soller In May 1945 nobody was sure just how devastating the bomb would be. There was general agreement that the simpler type of bomb would work, but the more complicated plutonium implosion device would need testing. Oppenheimer named this test Trinity, partly because of the Christian concept of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but mainly because of the Hindu three-in-one godhead of Vishnu, Brahma, and Siva, the power of life, the creator, and the destroyer. Oppenheimer described the reaction of the team allowed to watch the first Atomic Bomb trial at Los Alamos Desert,New Mexico.by Saying: "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another."

Review # 2 was written on 2017-05-16 00:00:00 Rodney Reynaldo Continuing to feed my Oppenheimer obsession. Amazon, 2008-05-01. This was pretty outstanding, especially for such a short read. Lots of new personal data and a few great pictures I hadn't seen. Relies almost entirely on direct accounts, but is fully aware of previous biographies (and often notes their errors, amusingly).