"On
July 16, 1945, somewhere in the empty desert of White Sands, New
Mexico, a new sort of death touched the world, one previously reserved
for acts of god. The ability to drop death like a pin on a map, to
spread its horror like a biblical flood across the earth, unmaking
everything it touched. If a miracle is something so divine that it
surpasses understanding, then what is its opposite? Something too
terrible and too human to be believed.
Later,
when Oppenheimer — now credited and condemned by history as the father
of the nuclear bomb — described his reaction to the first mushroom cloud
of the atomic age, he quoted from another great work of literature, the
Bhagavad Gita: “Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.” What would
the explosion look like from another world, if someone were watching?"
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Twin Peaks: The Return Recap, Episode 8