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On August 6th, 1945
Slightly less than two pounds of uranium 235
Destroyed the beautiful city of Hiroshima, and left barely a man, woman or child alive.
Just 3 days and 3 hours later
A bomb whose explosive yield was five kilotons greater
Reduced the beautiful city of Nagasaki to nothing but a big bomb crater.
It started with a radioactive core above a critical mass
In which a neutron headed straight for an atom, and alas,
Unrepelled by the nucleus’s positive charge
It split that atom into two, each one half as large,
And because those atoms had neutrons to spare
They sent them spinning off to collide with other atoms elsewhere.
An uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction had begun,
10,000 times hotter than the surface of the sun.
200,000 souls; 200,000 souls; 200,000 souls; 200,000 souls.
Within a mile-wide blast radius destruction’s absolute,
The pressure-wave incinerating all the people on its route
And after that initial shock the fire-storm will start
And tear the flesh of untold other men and women clean apart.
And those who happen to be placed a little further away
Will suffer radiation sickness and be subject to decay,
Mutation, cancer, cataracts, sterility and disease,
Not to mention all the damage to the land and to the seas.
200,000 souls; 200,000 souls; 200,000 souls; 200,000 souls.
It started with a simple equation
Stating a simple relation
Which has been true but hidden from view since the dawning of creation,
And so I now offer confession:
It was my algebraic expression
Which opened the door to a new kind of war and the ultimate act of aggression
The firing of a radioactive core above a critical mass
In which a neutron headed straight for an atom, and alas,
Unrepelled by the nucleus’s positive charge
It split that atom into two, each one half as large,
And because those atoms had neutrons to spare
They sent them spinning off to collide with other atoms elsewhere.
An uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction had begun,
10,000 times hotter than the surface of the sun.

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from Albert Einstein: Relativitively Speaking, released November 14, 2013

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