History 1401E Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Nuclear Weapon, Nuclear Warfare, Communism
20 Nov 2018
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Lecture 1: omega point = the ultimate fate of the universe. 15,000 nuclear weapons in the world - russia 7,300. Usa7,000: the meaning of the nuclear bomb lies in the extinction of a species. The bomb strips away the deluded notion that we are permanent. What it means to live in the backdrop of extinction (time of the end) - mass destruction (end of time) Huge black rain drops -people are running away. Its a whole new world so much so that it creates its own weather system. Trauma: its an injury where the wounds never heal. If the americans didn"t build it then the. So we try not to think of the bomb in terms of mass destruction: we see the meaning of the bomb as a political decision: ultimately maintaining the security of america. It allows these people to be dehumanized to lab rats pg. 141 (cid:1688)the abc keenly reminded him(cid:1689) statistics - the product of pure war.
