Rhodes’s Pulitzer-winning book has been having a renaissance among people grappling with the potential destructive force of other new technologies.
Writing in The Atlantic, Charlie Warzel called it “a kind of holy text for a certain type of A.I.
researcher — namely, the type who believes their creations might have the power to kill us all.”Long before “Oppenheimer,” a different portrayal of atomic science captured my imagination.
(I think it works best as a live play, but if you’re looking for streaming options, the BBC did make a television version starring Daniel Craig in 2002 and a radio version starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Simon Russell Beale in 2013.)
But inside, readers found that the entire thing was devoted to one single article: “Hiroshima,” by John Hersey.
Persons:
Rhodes’s Pulitzer, Charlie Warzel, ”, “ Oppenheimer, Michael Frayn, Werner Heisenberg, Nils Bohr, Heisenberg, Bohr, Margrethe —, Daniel Craig, Benedict Cumberbatch, Simon Russell Beale, John Hersey, Hersey, Suzanne Batchelor, “
Organizations:
BBC, Yorker
Locations:
Copenhagen, Danish, Hiroshima, ”, Central Texas, “ Hiroshima