Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/06/15
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1 Bomber sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Pete BEAULIEU ('62) 
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barbara BERKELEY ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Randy DYKEMAN ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steve KING ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cindy RAEKES ('82)

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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

Re: Plutonium and Easter

We read on these pages that the first delivery of plutonium to
Los Alamos was on Easter, 1944. I didn't know that. But in the
end the bomb had nothing to do with either Easter or actually
beating Hitler. The first successful detonation at Alamagordo,
NM was on July 16, 1945. Germany surrendered two months
earlier in May 1945.

An interesting conversation took place in the bunker on that
historic moment on the New Mexico desert. Oppenheimer, the
scientific brain behind the entire Manhattan Project, blurted a
probably rehearsed and staged line from the Hindu Scripture,
the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I have become death, the destroyer of
worlds." That he also had given the code name "Trinity" to the
project is regarded by some as blasphemy.

His colleague, Kenneth Bainbridge, the physicist in charge of
the actual bomb test, also realized the nearly boundless power
of atomic energy for evil as well as good. He turned back to
Oppenheimer and said: "Well, Oppie, now we're all sons of
bitches!" (Michael B. Stoff, Jonathan F. Fanton, R. Hal
Williams, The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to
the Atomic Age [New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1991], 5.

-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>Rick POLK ~ Class of 1970 ~ 1951 - 2015 

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