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Oppenheimer

"The bomb is not a metaphor."

USA: The explosive power of the atomic bomb has seduced and dazzled politicians for over 80 years. With the atomic bomb came a victim mentality, invoking an 'urgent necessity' – but this was exaggerated and used to trivialize human suffering and ecological destruction. As an example of the tests we struggle with today, the contamination that will affect humans and other life forms in Great Bear Lake for at least 800 years to come.

"Man's technological omnipotence also became our disempowerment"

NUCLEAR BOMBS:Günther Anders was concerned that man's highest science had constructed an instrument for its own destruction. In this book, Hannah Winther actualizes him by drawing in Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning Oppenheimer film that just plays on the old Prometheus myth.

Oppenheimer also misses grossly and loudly

NUCLEAR BOMBS: Oppenheimer is an epic biographical thriller. But the film about the enigmatic man has its weaknesses. A proposal to most people with entertainment instead of facts?

Russian roulette with…

NUCLEAR WEAPONS: The experts say the danger of nuclear war has never been greater than right now. The danger of accidents, nuclear weapons going astray, cyber infiltration and misunderstandings has increased. Here comes a deep dialogue with the nuclear weapons philosophy, where intellectuals have tried to get a grip on the incomprehensible: the threat of the annihilation of the world. And what does Sergej A. Karaganov, foreign policy and military strategic adviser to Putin's government, say? Is the only thing we can do is to postpone the apocalypse, to avert it again and again?