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Trinity, then Hiroshima. Fission has supplied grid electricity since the 1950s; controlled fusion still has no facility anywhere producing net electrical output.
In plain words
The first atomic bomb is tested at Trinity and then dropped on Hiroshima. From here a human act could end the species, and it is Babel a second time: capability gathered, nothing restrained, and this time no scattering.
The mechanism
THE BOARD CHANGES STATE — before 1945 no human act could end the species; after it, one could. And Babel runs a second time: one tongue, capability concentrated, nothing restrained — and this time there was no scatter
How it was checked
- EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / MANUSCRIPT; Status: COMMITTED
- Letter eraTHE SEAT MOVES TO THE BENCH 1713 to 1945
- Plate — Berlyn Brixner, Trinity test fireball at 16 milliseconds, 16 July 1945 · Los Alamos National Laboratory · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trinity_Test_Fireball_16ms.jpg
- SourcesSECULAR RECORD / PHYSICS
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