{"id":5491,"date":"2008-07-16T07:25:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T13:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5491"},"modified":"2008-07-16T07:26:50","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T13:26:50","slug":"63-years-ago-ken-bainbridge-summed-up-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/63-years-ago-ken-bainbridge-summed-up-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"63 Years Ago Ken Bainbridge Summed Up Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>63 years ago today, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/discoveries\/multimedia\/2008\/07\/gallery_atomic_bomb\" class=\"external external_icon\">United States detonated the first atomic bomb at Trinity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There he prepared and directed a facility for the first explosion of a nuclear bomb, the &#8220;Trinity Test.&#8221; Following the fearsomely successful explosion early in the morning of July 16, 1945, he congratulated J. Robert Oppenheimer and the others, then made his legendary remark, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hno.harvard.edu\/gazette\/1998\/05.07\/MemorialMinute-.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Now we are all sons of bitches<\/a>.&#8221; Oppenheimer later remarked that this was the best thing anyone had said just after the test. Ken subsequently was deeply dedicated to the control of nuclear weapons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mattfraction\/statuses\/859772450\" class=\"external external_icon\">matt fraction&#8217;s twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/discoveries\/multimedia\/2008\/07\/gallery_atomic_bomb\" class=\"external external_icon\">wired<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hno.harvard.edu\/gazette\/1998\/05.07\/MemorialMinute-.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">harvard university gazette)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>63 years ago today, the United States detonated the first atomic bomb at Trinity. There he prepared and directed a facility for the first explosion of a nuclear bomb, the &#8220;Trinity Test.&#8221; Following the fearsomely successful explosion early in the morning of July 16, 1945, he congratulated J. Robert Oppenheimer and the others, then made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[351,352,350,349,23],"class_list":["post-5491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-fire-in-the-sky","tag-ken-bainbridge","tag-nuclear-bomb","tag-trinity-test","tag-worldwarii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}