From Wally Sewell
In discussing the links between poetry and science, Simon Armitage concludes that what opened the bomb hatch over Hiroshima was “a poetic nightmare vision of hellfire” (26 August, p 20). I would suggest it was the absence of such a vision that allowed it to be opened; it was only after reports of the carnage came back that Robert Oppenheimer and the majority of his team realised they had “blood on their hands” and discontinued work on the project.
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