In the piece, my grandfather himself described the bomb as "the biggest boost humanity has yet been given toward terminating its brief history of misery and grandeur."
He also stated, "If the atom bomb blasted the last popular skepticism about Einstein's genius it also blasted man's complacent pride in the power of unaided intellect. At the very moment that it was finally mastered, matter was most elusive and most menacing."
My grandfather wrote that cover story for TIME:
• cover: https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19460701,00.html
• story: https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/printout/0,8816,803775,00.html
In the piece, my grandfather himself described the bomb as "the biggest boost humanity has yet been given toward terminating its brief history of misery and grandeur."
He also stated, "If the atom bomb blasted the last popular skepticism about Einstein's genius it also blasted man's complacent pride in the power of unaided intellect. At the very moment that it was finally mastered, matter was most elusive and most menacing."
Thanks for your note. At one point, yes, I knew he wrote that story.