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The specter of trauma has long hung over Godzilla, a creature unearthed from slumber by H-bomb testing in the 1954 original.

Lawrence knew that the physics community overwhelmingly supported Oppenheimer, and that Berkeley had become the center of anti-Oppenheimer sentiment, in part because of the conflict over the H-bomb program.

There were people who had ethical concerns, but, um, most of the people I've talked to felt pretty strongly in favor of building the H-bomb.

The opportunity presented itself unexpectedly with the test of H-bomb Bravo in March 1954.

“If I wound up finding out that Boston and New York had been incinerated by an H-bomb, I wouldn’t have been surprised.”