Atomic Cafe (sorry for the late post... i was out buying a bomb shelter)

After watching "Dr.Strangelove" and, currently, the "Atomic Cafe" i have grown an appetite. An appetite for knowledge. What exactly is this equation that apparently led to the creation of the most destructive  force ever conceived by man. E=MC^2. What does it actually mean? Through my research i came to understand that this equation shows the energy equivalence of mass or in Layman's terms how much energy is released when mass or any matter is converted into pure energy. It is mass multiplied by the speed of light squared. This is a power that is unimaginable. The atom bomb is not even a sliver of the true destructive power of this formula. Lets say for the sake of argument that a glass of water weighs .5 kilograms. This means according to the formula a glass of water has the energy of  4.49377589 × 10¹⁶ joules. This is enough energy to destroy a city, or ironically to power an African country = "4.42 × 10¹⁶ joules is the YEARLY eletricity consumption of Zimbabwe." - Wikipedia. It is also equivalent to an 11 megaton explosion. This is of course if the conversion from mass to energy is 100% efficient. In comparison the biggest American nuclear bomb ever detonated was Castle/Bravo which was a 15 megaton explosion. The absolute magnitude of destruction is unfathomable if the true potential of this equation were ever discovered. Of course this doesn't matter because we now live in a realm of insanity where the hydrogen bomb which is 1,000 times more powerful then the atom bomb exists. It doesn't matter whether a bomb is a 15000 megatons or 7 billion megatons it will very surely destroy the Earth either way. So why pursue even BIGGER bombs when the bombs we have, already reached a destructive force great enough to destroy the world. We do because we are insane, irrational beings.



After reading this, how can we sit idly when men of power so carelessly abuse a power no living thing should have. Truman laughing before his big T.V. "skit", announcing to the world that so many have died and millions more will suffer the horrors of nuclear radiation. The movie is so very effective, because it shows you different images and as a viewer you logically come to realize the madness of humanity. Through modern media and propaganda we see humanity as a generally good, moral, reasonable phenomena. The Atomic Cafe will make you think twice. The annihilation of two of Japan's city's was sanctioned and generally agreed upon. A population of 100 million people all basically were convinced this was the right move. How can anyone have faith in humanity after such an event you may ask? I repeat, we can because we are insane, irrational beings. It simply comes down to what is right and what is wrong. When so many people intentionally do wrong, then we have failed as conscious, intelligent, "supposedly"-morally superior beings.  

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Today is the first day we began watching Dr. Strangelove and is is already proving to be a hilarious film. Although it satirizes the Cold War era where absolute destruction seemed very likely to occur, it does not fail at providing comedy whilst uncovering the true pointless, irrational destructive nature of man. Of course i am jumping ahead but it is hard to contain oneself when writing of such a master work of film making. My eye had caught the posters seen in every scene of the military compound which states " Peace is our Proffession " This is ironic since sterling Hayden's skillfully portrayed character of General Ripper had just ordered a nuclear strike on Russia which undoubtedly would cause a nuclear war which would lead to the doomsday of humans on earth.