Heat sand hot enough, and you get glass. If you are a glassmaker, you can do this in a kiln. If you are a harbinger of extinction, you can do this with a meteor strike. And if you are J. Robert Oppenheimer, you can do this with a nuclear blast.
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The name “trinitite” derives from the name of the nuclear test site where it was first observed – Trinity, the first atomic test in human history. The site gets its name from nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer’s love of the poetry of John Donne. “Batter my heart, three person'd God,” Donne wrote, and, centuries later, nuclear history was made.
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Note the shoes worn by Oppenheimer and his crew in the picture; they are specially designed so as not to track trinitite away from the test site.
Prompt:
You could write a lifetime worth of poetry and never have to use the word trinitite, but consider the way poetry and science and world power come together in this word. There is a certain beauty to the code name of the first nuclear test. Members of the Manhattan project recognized the singular significance of their work, and chose associated words deliberately. So rather than give you a real prompt this time, may I just wish that the words you chose be likewise deliberate and evocative.
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