"We believed that" "Matter can be neither created" "Nor destroyed" "But only altered in form" "We believed that" "Energy can be neither created" "Nor destroyed" "But only altered in form" "But now we know that energy may become matter" "But now we know that matter may become energy" "And has been altered in form" "The end of June 1945" "Finds us expecting from day to day" "To hear of the explosion" "Of the first atomic bomb" "Devised by man" "All the problems are believed" "To have been solved" "At least well enough to make a bomb" "Practicable" "A sustained neutron" "Neutron chain reaction" "Resulting from nuclear fission" "Has been demonstrated" "Production plants of several different types" "Are in operation" "Building a stock pile" "Of the explosive materials" "We do not know" "When the first explosion will occur" "Nor how effective it will be" "The devastation from a single bomb" "Is expected to be comparable to that" "Of a major air raid by usual methods" "A weapon has been developed" "That is potentially destructive" "Beyond the wildest nightmares" "Of the imagination" "A weapon so ideally suited" "To sudden unannounced attack" "That a country's major cities" "Might be destroyed overnight" "By an ostensibly friendly power" "This weapon has been created not by the devilish inspiration" "Of some warped genius" "But by the arduous labor" "Of thousands of noble men and women" "Working for the safety" "Of their country" "Working for the safety" "The safety of their country" "First of all, let me say" "That I have no hope" "Of clearing my conscience" "The things we are working on" "Are so terrible" "That no amount of protesting" "Or fiddling with politics" "Will save our souls" "The soul is a thing so impalpable" "So often useless" "And sometimes so embarrassing" "That at this loss I felt" "Only a little more emotion" "Than if, during a walk" "I had lost my visiting card" "I found a new difficulty" "With the latest design of the Super" "But since I haven't" "Thought it through yet" "I would rather talk about it later" "Talk about it now" "No" "Home stretch measures, Edward" "Ruthless, brutal people" "Must band together" "To force the Fat Man" "Components to dovetail" "In time and space" "The Cowpuncher Committee" "Has a mandate" "To "ride herd"" "On the implosion program" "We surround the plutonium core" "From 32 points spaced equally" "Around its surface" "The 32 points" "Are the centers" "Of the 20 triangular faces" "Of an icosahedron" "Interwoven with the 12 pentagonal faces" "Of a dodecahedron" "We squeeze the sphere" "Bring the atoms closer" "Until the subcritical mass" "Goes critical" "We disturb the stable nucleus" "We are bedeviled by faulty detonators" "One detonator fizzles" "Or goes off a millionth of a second" "Too early or too late" "It ruins the symmetry" "Of the Gadget's nuclear guts..." "No more quibbling" "Over the plutonium core ...and we've got a misfire" "It will be a solid ball" "We have you to thank for that, Edward" "We'll kick-start the reaction" "With a modulated initiator" "Let me apologize for my rudeness" "I dislike group meetings" "OK" "You don't want to return to the meetings?" "You don't have to" "I'll talk with you about your group's work" "By yourself" "I received this letter" "From my friend Leo Szilard" "Szilard's a bright fellow" "Kind of a busy-body" "But very bright" ""Many of us are inclined to say" "That individual Germans" "Share the guilt for acts" "Which Germany committed during this war" "Because they did not raise their voices" "In protest against those acts" "Their defense that their protest" "Would have been to no avail" "Hardly seems acceptable" "Even though these Germans" "Could not have protested" "Without running risks" "To life and liberty" "We scientists" "Working on 'atomic power'" "Are in a position" "To raise our voices" "Without such risks" "Even though we might incur the displeasure" "Of those who are at present in charge" "The people of the United States" "Are unaware of the choice we face" "And this only increases our responsibility" "In this matter" "We alone" "Who have worked on 'atomic power'" "We alone are in a position" "To declare our stand"" "I think it improper for a scientist" "To use his prestige" "As a platform for political pronouncements" "The nation's fate" "Should be left in the hands" "Of the best men in Washington" "They have the information which we do not possess" "Men like Marshall" "A man of great humanity and intellect" "It is for them to decide, not us" "Actually, I'm organizing a small meeting" "In our building" "The title is" ""The Impact of the Gadget on Civilization"" "I saw the announcement" "I'd like to persuade you not to have it" "I feel that such a discussion in the lab" "In the technical area" "Is quite inconsistent" "With what we talk about there" "These questions are not technical questions" "But political and social questions" "And the answers given to them" "May affect all mankind" "For generations" "In thinking about them" "The men on the project" "Have been thinking as citizens of the United States" "Vitally interested" "In the welfare of the human race" "I might warn you:" "You could get in trouble" "If you hold such a meeting" "From radical to establishment figure" "In two easy stages!" "Isn't it better that I have a voice" "Within the government?" "This is a petition" "To the President of the United States" ""We, the undersigned scientists" "Have been working in the field" "Of atomic power" "Until recently, we have had to fear" "That in this war the United States" "Might be attacked" "The United States might be attacked" "By atomic bombs" "And that her only defense" "Might lie in a counterattack" "By the same means" "Today, with the defeat of Germany" "This danger is averted" "And we feel impelled" "To say what follows..."" "The machinery has caught us in its trap" "And we can't stop now" "You want to know if it works ...atomic bombs may well be" "Effective warfare" "But attacks on Japan" "Cannot be justified" "Until we make clear" "The terms of peace" "And give them a chance to surrender" "What do we know" "About Japanese psychology?" "What, shall we scientists" "Judge the way to end the war?" "We must first devise and demonstrate her" "Where there won't be any people" "Not on a city" "Or a demonstration" "Right here in the desert" "Let them send observers" "See for themselves" "What if it's a dud?" "Every time we test it" "Something goes wrong" "Some component is failing" "The Gadget Division..." "It's been thrown into turmoil" "Yesterday we had blisters" "Blisters on the sphere's surface" "Infinitesimal, but large enough" "To cause a fatal misfit" "Between the hemispheres" "Everybody is rushing around" "They don't appear to be ready" "But there's momentum" "Everybody's working day and night" "Nobody has a spare moment" "And we work like dogs" "It's hard to stop and think" "As one ought to" "Well, how do you feel?" "Well, pretty excited" "Like going out" "To save civilization" "The test must go on as scheduled" "Groves has talked with Conant" "And the "upper crust" in Washington" "Doctor Stearns described the work" "They've already done" "On target selection" "It was agreed" "That psychological factors" "In selecting the targets" "Are of great importance" "Kyoto" "Double-A target" "An intellectual center" "Nagasaki:" "A secondary target" "Yokohama" "Nagoya" "Fukuoka" "Hiroshima" "You used your scientific stature" "To give political advice" "In favor of immediate bombing?" "I explained that the visual effect" "Of an atomic bombing would be tremendous" "A brilliant luminescence" "Rising to a height of 20,000 feet" "The neutron effect of the explosion" "Would be dangerous to life for a radius" "Of at least two-thirds of a mile" "A brilliant luminescence" "Our only hope is" "To convince everybody" "That the next war will be fatal" "For this purpose" "Actual combat use" "Might be the best thing" "No, before the bomb is used" "Japan must have some warning" "A couple of days in advance" "It's our position" "As a great humanitarian nation" "It's the fair play of our people" "The Secretary of War" "Concludes" "That we cannot give the Japanese" "Any warning" "That we should seek to make" "A profound psychological impression" "On as many inhabitants as possible" "Doctor Conant suggests" "A vital war plant" "As the most desirable target" "Employing a large number of workers" "And closely surrounded by workers' houses" "Truman will never see that petition" "These forces of nature" "Security officials" "For purposes of destruction" "Will deem it" "A superfluous document" "In light of the decisions" "Being made at the highest levels" "To an era of devastation" "I've already told them in Washington" "That several strikes" "Would be feasible" "The more decisive a weapon is" "The more surely" "It will be used" "And no agreements will help" "Could we have started the atomic age" "With clean hands?" "Am I in your light?" "No, go on reading" "The hackneyed light of evening quarreling with the bulbs" "The book's bent rectangle" "Solid on your knees" "Only my fingers in your hair" "Only, only my eyes" "Splitting the skull" "To tickle your brain with love" "In a slow caress blurring the mind" "Kissing your mouth awake" "Opening the body's mouth" "Stopping the words" "This light is thick with birds" "And evening warns us" "Warns us beautifully of death" "Slowly I bend over you" "Slowly your breath" "Runs rhythms through my blood" "As if I said I love you" "And you should raise your head" "I love you" "Listening, listening" "Speaking into the covert night:" "Did someone say something?" "Love, love, am I in your light?" "Am I?" "See how love alters" "The living face" "Go spin the immortal coin through time" "Watch the thing flip through space" "Tick tick" "Long let me inhale" "Deeply the odor of your hair" "Into it plunge the whole of my face" "Like a thirsty man" "Into the water of a spring" "And wave it in my fingers" "Like a scented handkerchief" "To shake the memories into the air" "If you could know all that I see!" "All that I feel!" "All that I hear in your hair!" "My soul floats, floats upon perfumes" "As the souls of other men float" "Float upon music" "Your hair contains an entire dream" "Full of sails and masts" "It contains vast seas" "Whose soft monsoons" "Bear me to delightful climates" "Where space is deeper and bluer" "Where the atmosphere is perfumed with fruit" "With foliage and with human skin" "In the ocean of your hair" "I see brief visions of a port" "Resounding" "With melancholy songs" "Of vigorous men of all nations" "And ships of all shapes" "Outlining their fine and complicated architecture" "Against an immense sky" "Where eternal heat" "Languidly quivers" "In the glowing fire-grate of your hair" "I inhale the odor of tobacco" "Mingled with opium and sugar" "In the night of your hair" "I see the infinity" "Of tropical azure resplendent" "On the downed banks of your hair" "I inebriate myself" "With the mingled odors of tar" "Of musk and of coconut oil" "Long let me bite" "Your heavy black tresses" "It seems to me" "That I am eating memories" "The motive of it all was loneliness" "All the panic encounters and despair" "Were bred in fear, bred in fear" "Of the lost night" "Apart" "Outlined by pain" "Apart, alone" "Promiscuous as mercy" "Fear-led" "And led again to fear" "Toward the cave where part fire" "And part pity" "Lived in that voluptuousness" "To end one and begin" "Another loneliness" "This is the most intolerable motive:" "This must be given" "Back to life again" "Made superhuman" "Made human, out of pain" "Made superhuman" "Made human, out of pain" "Turned to the personal" "The pure release:" "The personal, the rings of Plato" "And Homer's golden chain" "Or Lenin with his cry" "Of "dare we win?"" "Those who most long for peace" "Now pour their lives on war" "Our conflicts" "Carry creation and its guilt" "These years' great arms" "Are full of death and flowers" "A world" "Is to be fought for, sung, and built:" "Love must imagine the world" "What the hell is wrong with the weather?" "The weather is whimsical" "Thunderheads" "Began moving in the area at 04:00 hours" "Lightning..." "What if it hits the tower" "And detonates the bomb?" "Rain is probably ruining" "The electrical connections" "General, weather forecasters" "Have opposed this test for months" "It was set within a window" "Of unfavorable conditions:" "Thunderstorms, rain" "High winds, inversion layers" "You overrode us, sir" "Is this insubordination?" "Now we are onsite" "And conditions are exactly the worst possible" "With an electrical storm" "Threatening not just the test" "But the lives of those" "Setting it up" "500 U.S. Superfortresses" "Are raining incendiary bombs" "On four Japanese cities" "Our B-29s are destroying" "Half of every Jap city they hit" "The President of the United States" "Is talking to Joe Stalin in the morning" "In Potsdam" "This test will proceed as scheduled" "With full weather compliance" "Or you will spend the rest of your life" "Behind bars" "Mr. Meteorologist" "We are seeing storm clouds coming in" "Over the Chupadera Mesa and the Oscuras" "I am asking for a firm prediction" "As to when the storm will pass" "I am the heat of the sun" "And the heat of the fire am I also:" "Life eternal and death" "I let loose the rain" "Or withhold it" "Arjuna" "I am the cosmos revealed" "And its germ that lies hidden" "The volatility of the season" "Makes such a prediction impossible" "So you are refusing to forecast" "Good weather for the test?" "I recommend we postpone the decision" "Until our next weather conference" "At 2:00 AM" "Hubbard, I want a specific time" "At that time" "I will recommend postponing the test" "Until 5:30 AM" "When the thunderstorms would be dissipated" "By the first rays of sun" "I demand a signed weather forecast" "I warn you" "If you are wrong, I will hang you" "I'll sign the report, sir" "If we postpone" "I'll never get my people" "Up to pitch again" "I hear Fermi" "Just rushed into the mess hall pleading for postponement" "A sudden shift of wind" "Could deluge the camp" "With radioactive rain after the shot" "The evacuation routes are inadequate" "It could be a catastrophe" "If I have to compromise security" "By sending an evacuation force" "Into nearby towns" "Our cover's blown" "The secret of the test" "Will end up headlined in tomorrow's newspapers" "So far the press is exercising voluntary censorship" "With respect, sir" "Anyone with two good eyes" "Could have found Los Alamos" "Just by following" "The trail of beer cans from Santa Fe" "But ever since the first grams of plutonium" "Arrived at Los Alamos, sir" "The medical division has been studying" "The toxic properties" "Of the deadly metal" "Its metabolism is similar" "To radium:" "Enough of it in the human body" "Eats through vital tissues" "Disintegrates human kidneys" "And causes fatal bone cancer" "Sir, no cure has yet been found" "For the agonies that result" "From overexposure" "To fallout and radiation" "Feelings of heat and cold" "Pleasure and pain" "Are caused by the contact" "Of the senses with their objects" "They come and they go" "Never lasting long" "You must accept them" "You what?" "I've been preoccupied" "With many matters" "But the prospect of fallout" "Has not been high on my priority list" "Now you're telling me that we should be ready" "To evacuate Trinity?" "Bring in troops and trucks" "To get everyone out at a moment's notice" "If something goes wrong?" "That could be the case, sir" "What are you, a Hearst propagandist?" "A serene spirit accepts pleasure and pain" "With an even mind" "And is unmoved by either" "He alone is worthy of immortality" "I'm having to double" "As camp psychologist" "I keep in constant touch" "With a team of psychiatrists at Oak Ridge" "Several of the younger scientists" "Are talking wildly" "Of failure and possible disaster" "Their fears are threatening" "To infect the rest of the camp" "Two hours ago" "One young scientist became hysterical" "And had to be removed" "Under sedation" "There's an air of excitement at the camp" "That I do not like" "This is a time when calm deliberation is most essential" "Oppenheimer is getting advice" "From all sides" "On what he should and should not do" "The best thing I can do" "Is introduce as much of an atmosphere of calm as possible" "Into this very tense situation" "The main problem is the weather" "We have the best weathermen the armed forces can give us" "Their predictions have always been on the money" "The only time they've been wrong is right now" "On the day it counts" "Get them out of here" "From now on" "I'm making my own weather predictions" "General you are bearing up with remarkable fortitude" "Only your waistline is suffering" "I've been urged into action" "As a child I often ate great quantities of food" "Sweets and chocolate, and so forth" "This was a subject of concern" "To my father and to my stepmother" "I have here detailed diets" "That were, at least in theory" "Intended to be followed" "I did stick to one last August and September" "You can see my daily menus" "And my weight" "Here, see:" "On August 7 I weighed 227 pounds" "By September 24 I am down to 212" "All the menus are meticulously drawn up" "Down to the last calorie" "In this particular diet" "The average number of calories per day" "Is only 1,020" "It would hardly keep a bird alive" "But then there's the two brownies:" "200 calories" "And on September 15" "Three pieces of chocolate cake:" "300 calories" "You don't look so good" "Get some sleep" "I'll turn in myself" "I want Kistiakowsky, Bainbridge" "And Officer Bush up on that bomb tower" "To prevent potential sabotage" "Good night" "Batter my heart, three person'd God" "For, you as yet" "But knock" "Breathe, knock" "Breathe, shine" "And seek to mend" "Batter my heart, three person'd God" "That I may rise and stand" "O'erthrow me" "And bend Your force" "To break, blow" "Break, blow" "Break, blow, burn" "And make me new" "I, like an usurpt town" "To another due" "Labor to admit you" "But oh, to no end" "Reason, your viceroy in me" "Me should defend" "But is captiv'd" "And proves weak or untrue" "Yet dearly I love you" "And would be lov'd fain" "But am betroth'd unto your enemy" "Divorce me" "Untie, or break that knot again" "Take me to you, imprison me" "For I except you enthrall me" "Never shall be free" "Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me" "Wary of time" "Oh, it seizes the soul tonight" "I wait for the great morning" "Of the west" "Confessing with every breath" "Mortality" "Moon of this wild sky struggles" "To stay whole" "Struggles to stay whole" "And on the water" "Silvers the ships of war" "I go alone in the black-yellow light" "All night waiting for day" "While everywhere the sure death of light" "The leaf's sure return to the root" "Is repeated in million" "Death of all men" "To share" "Whatever world I know" "Shines ritual death" "Wide under this moon" "They stand gathering fire" "Fighting with flame" "Stand fighting in their graves" "All shining with life" "As the leaf, as the wing shines" "All shining" "Shining, shining" "All things shine" "The stone deep in the mountain" "The drop in the green wave" "Lit by their energies" "All things shine, all things secretly" "All things shine" "Nothing can black that glow of life" "Although each part goes crumbling down" "Itself shall rise up whole" "Now I say there are new meanings" "Now I name death" "Death, our black honor" "And feast of possibility" "To celebrate" "Casting of life on life" "This earth-long day" "Between blood and resurrection" "Where we wait remembering sun, seed" "Remembering sun, seed, and fire" "Remembering that fierce Judean Innocent" "Who risked every mortal meaning" "On one life" "Given to our year" "As sun and spirit are" "As seed we are blessed" "Only in needing freedom" "Now I say" "That the peace the spirit needs" "Is peace" "Not lack of war" "But fierce, continual flame" "Fierce flame" "A fierce flame" "For all men:" "Effort is freedom" "Effort is peace" "It fights" "And along these truths" "The soul goes home" "Flies in its blazing to a place" "More safe and round than Paradise" "Night of the soul" "Our dreams in the arms of dreams" "Dissolving into eyes that look upon us" "Dreams the sources of action" "The meeting and the end" "A resting-place among the flight" "Of things" "In the north the cloud-flower blossoms" "And now the lightning flashes" "And now the thunder clashes" "And now the rain comes down" "Ah, my little one" "My little one" "It's midnight, Jack" "There's quite a fierce storm going on up here" "I have a certain amount of respect" "For that atomic bomb" "Being right next to it" "Sparks seem to be flying" "Lightning is striking all around" "We've got to consider" "The minimum specifications" "Under which this operation" "Can be conducted" "If you ask me" "Testing this thing tonight" "Is a blunder of the first magnitude" "I have to attach this canister" "To the top of the tower" "Tubes to measure the speed" "Of the bomb's chain reaction" "Rossi and I have been rechecking it" "All night" "I have to have it all turned on" "And tested before" "You know, I'm really scared" "About this object here in the tower" "A short while ago" "A model of the X unit" "Fired spontaneously in a storm" "This weather is really something" "You don't want to be around" "With a bomb nearby" "I'm leaving for my station at North-10,000." "The men in charge of monitoring" "Expected fallout" "Are prepared for two alternatives:" "A "North Blow"" "Or a "South Blow"" "If the winds hold in their current position" "The shelter at North-10,000" "Will be inundated with radioactive debris" "I've dreamed the same dream" "Several nights running" "I'm almost at the top of the tower" "And then I misstep" "And I'm falling" "A long, slow fall" "And each time, before I strike the ground" "I wake up sweating" "In the west the cloud-flower blossoms" "And now the lightning flashes" "And now the thunder clashes" "And now the rain comes down" "Ah, my little one" "To the farthest west" "The sea and the striped country" "And deep in the camps" "Among the wounded cities" "Half-world over" "The waking dreams of night" "Outrange the horrors" "Past fierce and tossing skies" "The rare desires shine" "In constellation" "I hear your cries, your little voices" "Of children" "Swaying wild, swaying wild" "Night lost, night lost" "In black fields calling" "I hear you, I hear you" "As the seething dreams" "Arrive over the sea" "And past the flaming mountains" "In the south the cloud-flower blossoms" "And now the lightning flashes" "And now the thunder clashes" "And now the rain comes down" "A delay in the Potsdam ultimatum" "Could result in a delay" "In the Japanese reaction" "With a further delay" "To the atomic attack on Japan" "Obviously, a reasonable time" "Has to be allowed for the Japanese" "To consider the ultimatum" "Ah, little one" "Fermi is taking wagers" "As to whether the bomb" "Will ignite the atmosphere" "And if so" "Whether it will destroy" "Just New Mexico" "Or the entire world" "I fail to appreciate your black humor" "Doctor Teller" "This is exactly the kind of loose talk" "That might paralyze the enlisted men with fright" "Edward's a great one" "For oddball problems, General" "I asked for, and I obtained" "A most important assignment" "One that many consider superfluous" "There have been some suggestions" "That we might have miscalculated" "That the explosion could be much larger" "Than we had anticipated" "Might we not be setting off" "A huge chain reaction" "That will encircle the globe" "In a sea of fire?" "It's my job to make a last check" "And review" "I've spent a great deal of time" "Indulging in controlled fantasies" "Trying to dream up new, undiscovered laws of nature" "Undiscovered laws" "That a sudden release" "Of atomic energy might bring into play" "There was a possibility" "That the test blast" "Might touch off a natural phenomenon" "A natural phenomenon that is not contrary to our knowledge" "But perhaps beyond our experience" "In July, three years ago" "I made some of the initial calculations" "And my figures indicated" "That the bomb would, indeed" "Create enough heat" "To ignite the earth's atmosphere" "You'll remember" "That I immediately called a halt" "To those meetings" "We asked Bethe" "About your numbers" "His calculations showed" "That even extreme pressures and temperatures" "Reached in the interior of our explosion" "Will not be high enough" "To fuse the hydrogen" "With either nitrogen or helium" "The Gadget won't set fire" "To the atmosphere" "My revised figures" "Agree with Bethe's" "I can find no reason to believe" "The test shot" "Will touch off the destruction of the world" "No reason to think" "That our advance calculations" "Are not entirely correct" "Edward" "The test will be delayed an hour or more" "The climax" "Of our two-billion dollar experiment:" "Will we have a "dud"" "A "fizzle" at Trinity?" "This drizzle is bone-chilling" "Here..." "I brought a jar of suntan lotion" "Pass it around" "The winds have actually shifted" "A full 360 degrees in the last 12 hours" "Thunderstorms and 30-mile-an-hour winds" "Are raking the test site" "In the east the cloud-flower blossoms" "You are eight minutes late" "And now the lightning flashes" "General" "A night rain" "In a tropical air mass behaves differently" "From a standard southwestern afternoon storm" "This is no normal storm, sir" "Neither Bainbridge nor I" "Have slept in over two days" "There is still hope for a shot" "Maybe sometime" "Between dawn at 5:00 AM" "And sunrise at 6" "Prepare to fire" "At 5:30" "This program has been plagued from the start" "By the presence of certain scientists" "Of doubtful discretion and uncertain loyalty" "It was agreed in Washington" "That nothing can be done about dismissing those men" "Until after the bomb" "Has actually been used" "Or, at best" "Until after the test has been made" "Oh yes, Time has returned" "Time has returned" "Now Time reigns absolute" "And with the hideous old man" "The whole of his demonic retinue has returned" " Memories, regrets..." " To keep a weakness secret Spasms, fears..." "...To deny it Afflictions, nightmares..." "...And break through Rages and neuroses ...In the dream of chieftains" "The corn distinct again" "In gold-white tuft-feathers" "The roads all paved, stony, savage" "The knocking in the chest resumed" ""Your father has a passion for freedom"" "Rang and rang in the small boy's head" "Then word came from a runner, a stranger:" ""They are dancing" "To bring the dead back" "In the mountains"" "We danced at an autumn fire" "We danced the old hate and change" "The coming again of our leaders" "But they did not come" "I just finished reading The Magic Mountain" "By Thomas Mann" "And of course" "To go to this mysterious mountain" "On top of which" "There would be a secret laboratory" "Which we would go into" "The doors would slam shut" "And a few years later" "We would come out" "Bearing an atomic bomb" "I assure you that now the seconds" "Are strongly and solemnly accentuated" "And each one" "Spouting out of the clock, says:" ""I am Life" "Insupportable, implacable Life!"" "The winter dawned" "But the dead did not come back" "News came on the frost:" ""The dead are on the march!"" "We danced in prison" "To a winter music" "Many we loved" "Began to dream of the dead" "They made no promises" "We never dreamed a threat" "And the dreams spread" "And love" "Which contains all human spirit" "All wish" "The eyes and hands, sex, mouth" "Hair, the whole woman" "Fierce peace" "Fierce peace I say at last" "Fierce peace" "And the sense of the world" "There is only one second in the life of men" "Whose mission it is" "To announce good news" "The good news, the good news, which fills every man" "With an inexplicable fear" "The only saviors are the ham sandwiches" "And hot coffee" "They have an informal betting pool going" "Everybody puts in a dollar" "Whoever guesses the explosive yield" "Is a rich man" "I guess 300 tons of TNT" "A very low estimate" "Not much more than 30 10-ton blockbuster bombs" "In other words" "What you're predicting" "Is we'll get nothing more than a fizzle" "I confess my utter amazement" "That these scientists are glooming over their coffee cups" "About their uncertainties" "Of the coming test" "The bomb has a blackboard potential" "Of nearly 20,000 tons" "That's 20 kilotons of TNT" "No one thinks for a minute" "We'll achieve a yield like that" "Bethe and Ulam guess small:" "Five to seven kilotons" "The scientists refuse to believe" "What their own calculations tell them" "I confess" "That I am not optimistic myself" "Maybe a 40 or 60% chance of success" "I alone scoff" "At my colleagues' pessimism" "I pick 45 kilotons" "At the sight of this" "Your Shape stupendous" "Full of mouths and eyes" "Terrible with fangs" "Oh master" "Terrible with fangs" "At the sight of this" "Your Shape stupendous" "Full of mouths and eyes" "Feet, thighs and bellies" "All the worlds are fear-struck" "Even just as I am" "When I see you, Vishnu, omnipresent" "Shouldering the sky, in hues of rainbow" "Master" "At the sight of this" "Your Shape stupendous" "With your mouths agape" "And flame-eyes staring" "All my peace is gone" "Oh, my heart is troubled" "All my peace is gone" "Oh, my heart is troubled" "Master" "When I see you, Vishnu, omnipresent" "With your flame-eyes staring, all my peace is gone" "Lieutenant Bush" "Keep a weather eye on Oppenheimer" "There is concern" "Our high-strung director" "Might have a breakdown at the last minute" "The radio connection" "With the control tower" "Is out of order" "And no one really knows" "When the bomb will go off" "Or where to look for it" "The scientists are standing around in the dark" "And munching candy bars as we wait" "For some divine revelation" "To tell us when the shot will go" "To what benevolent demon" "Do I owe the joy of being thus surrounded" "Thus surrounded with mystery" "With silence" "With peace" "And with perfumes?" "Oh beatitude!" "That which we generally call life" "Even when it's fullest and happiest" "Has nothing in common" "With that supreme life" "Which I now know" "And which I am tasting" "Minute by minute" "Second by second!" "No!" "There are no more minutes" "No more seconds!" "Time has disappeared" "It is Eternity that reigns now!" "That's the signal" "The shot will go in five minutes" "Everyone should take his place in the trenches" "The sky is clear to the east" "And over Ground Zero" "And South-10,000" "But overcast to the west" "We have visibility" "Greater than 60 miles" "The surface wind from the east-southeast" "Is three to six miles per hour" "Below 500 feet" "The rain has stopped" "In the summer" "Dreaming was common to all of us" "The drumbeat hope" "The bursting heart of wish" "Music to bind us" "As the visions streamed" "And midnight brightened" "Brightened to belief" "In the midnight" "In the flame-brilliant midnight" "Dreamers wake" "Dreamers wake in the night" "And sing their songs" "In the flame-brilliant midnight" "Promises of life, singing to each of us" "With tongues of flame:" ""We are hopes" "You should have hoped us" "We are dreams" "You should have dreamed us"" "Calling our name" "Zero minus two minutes" "The two-minute warning rocket" "Has sputtered out prematurely" "That was an ominous sign" "Lord, these affairs" "Are hard on the heart" "Give us water, please" "The children want water" "Mr. Tanimoto, please help us" "I cannot find my husband"