It is hard to imagine that such a crude film as Oppenheimer and some cartoons are as good as Spongebob there is something in common. But the truth is what they do. Despite the fact that the animated character and all his friends are logically fictitious, the place where they live is inspired by a very real place where part of the post-story story Oppenheimer.
After physical Julius Robert Oppenheimer lose control Manhattan Project and it passed into the hands of the United States Army, the first tests of the nuclear weapons created by him and his team began. Also other bombs that were made later. Places like Bikini Atolla paradise enclave of the Pacific Ocean, belonging to the Marshall Islands, in which 167 people lived in 1947.
They were all evacuated under the promise that they would soon return to their homes. But they couldn’t do it. Instead, in fiction, the seabed of this atoll became a bustling city, home to a sponge named Bob who lived in a pineapple. Pineapple in. Bikini top.
Horror after Oppenheimer’s departure
After World War II and the terrible bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, neither Oppenheimer, nor most of the scientists who worked with him, were no longer involved in the Manhattan Project. The Nazis no longer posed a threat, but the United States soon found a new enemy in Soviet Union.
For this reason, without the support of the project’s parents, it was decided to continue the manufacture of bombs, for which testing grounds were sought. These were practically deserted places, far from large settlements, where small controlled explosions were carried out. One of them was Bikini Atoll.
Its residents allegedly left for a short time. However, the first explosion produced by a bomb called Castle Bravo, went wrong. For the first time, instead of making weapons from Nuclear fissionsuch as Thin Man, Fat Man or Little Boy, thermonuclear reaction. The technique was not perfected, and instead of the expected small detonation, an explosion occurred a thousand times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. People were hurt in 11,000 square kilometersincluding the crew of a boat that was fishing in the area.
A place inhabited only in fiction
The results were disastrous. So much so that the inhabitants of the atoll on which they fictitiously live today Spongebob and his friends, they were able to return home only after 10 years. Only 100 people dared to return, but, unfortunately, their joy did not last long, as it soon became clear that radiation levels they were still too high and the area was again evacuated. To this day no one lives there.
All this doesn’t count OppenheimerOh, and a new movie. Christopher Nolan talks about a much earlier stage. However, this is the start of what started with a relatively noble goal but ended up turning into a nightmare due to this calamity of some people for whom the destruction caused is irrelevant as long as the outcome should feel powerful.
Source: Hiper Textual
