This is fascinating. Thanks for sharing. Anthony Burgess was also preoccupied by the atomic bomb, and he wrote an essay on the fortieth anniversary of Hiroshima in 1985. Interesting to compare the two written from different sides of the Cold War.
Burgess wrote: 'All you and I need to know is that the USA and the USSR between them have a nuclear stockpile big enough to destroy the planet. The mind boggles, thought stops. The end of mankind has become an itch in the middle of the back that goes on for ever and you can’t scratch. We live with the prospect, breathe it like the polluted air. It doesn’t really frighten us any more.'
This is fascinating. Thanks for sharing. Anthony Burgess was also preoccupied by the atomic bomb, and he wrote an essay on the fortieth anniversary of Hiroshima in 1985. Interesting to compare the two written from different sides of the Cold War.
Burgess wrote: 'All you and I need to know is that the USA and the USSR between them have a nuclear stockpile big enough to destroy the planet. The mind boggles, thought stops. The end of mankind has become an itch in the middle of the back that goes on for ever and you can’t scratch. We live with the prospect, breathe it like the polluted air. It doesn’t really frighten us any more.'