There are moments in the history of science that are produced desarrollos que can profoundly affect humanity’s own history. What Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann realized at the end of 1938 in the radiation department of the Instituto de Química de la Asociación Káiser Guillermo, located in Dahlem, a rural area outside Berlin, of the physiology of the uranium-235 atom when neutrons were thrown at it, is one of them.
As is well known, the first “practical” use of this hall began in August 1945 with the dropping of atomic bombs that destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (this city was not made of uranium, but of plutonium, which, however, was composed of this element, a transuranic chemical closely related to uranium research).
Since entence, the availability of atomic weapons conditioned international politics. We must also note that nuclear energy has been and continues to be used to generate electricity in nuclear power plants, an example that has been the subject of intense discussions and demonstrations.
In fact, it is the presence of “nuclear energy” that has even penetrated the culture, because it is somehow relevant to everything that happens, including what is related to politics.
We think, for example, in the cinema, where There are countless films whose theme is connected to the nuclear worldfrom satire type de Red phone? We will fly to Moscow (Dr. Strangelove) (1964), Stanley Kubrick, about mutually assured destruction, has apocalyptic visions that offer the day after (1983), which shows the devastating effects of a nuclear attack on the United States; I still remembered the impression I had made when I read the novel, and I also remembered, to the extreme, reading the novel Way (2006) by Cormac McCarthy and the follow-up film (2009). And let’s not forget your result Oppenheimer (2023), by Christopher Nolan, focused on the Manhattan Project and the iconic director of the Los Álamos laboratory, where all the elements necessary to prepare the bombs that bombed Japanese cities were collected.
analyze the “spirit” a purpose that arises in the policy of countries that have nuclear weaponsit will represent a complication and from the extensive implementation of sociopolitical exegesis, which leads from the undisguised threats of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the non-recognition of his availability to Israel.
No, I want to keep it speech by President Emmanuel Macron last March 2 on Île Longue, home to the most important naval base in France. Located in the Bay of Brest in the Finisterre department, its base is, in Macron’s words, “a cathedral of our sovereignty and a symbol of our constant commitment to nuclear deterrence for more than 65 years.”
The French president has made it clear that those who stage a coup in France should be sure to “suffer damage from which they cannot return”
Of course the soul that tilts (easily found on the internet) is, in my opinion, a magnificent example of France, which I have always admired, pride in belonging to a great nationrepresent a common idiom.
France, which led its citizens to world-renowned figures such as Lavoisier, Laplace and Pasteur, to Napoleon – although ultimately attracted by the cruel but also magnificent French Revolution – to De Gaulle, to Descartes, Galois and Poincaré, to Victor Hugo, Zola and Simone de Beauvoir and above all to me, and Montesquieu y Chateau de Chateau de Memorias de ultratumbaan indelible work that begins with words that cannot untangle the soul of those who have a certain saying: “Since it is impossible for me to foresee the moment of my end, my years of days that are granted to man are not even days of grace or rather the good of severity, I want to explain it myself.
In his speech, Macron made it clear that when inserted into a world like today’s France has only perfected nuclear weapons not in numbers, perhaps the idea of an armed raid was repugnant, to the point of being clear to “any adversary or combination of adversaries who do not even imagine the slightest possibility of a coup against France, without being certain of suffering damage from which they cannot recover”. What did I call? advanced deterrence (advanced persuasion).
I understood that too At the same time, I was thinking about the security of Europe —Europe, of which France has always longed to be a part — and which tried to create relations corresponding to respect.
But what I admired most about this debate was that Macron recognized at various times that he was continuing the path that other of his predecessors, such as De Gaulle and Mitterrand, had taken through the presidency of the nation. I envy a nation in which surely the inevitable political consequences will not prevent a president worthy of his predecessors. President Trump is obviously the canonical example of the opposite, but that doesn’t make it any easier for so many to see.
I also envy a nation that knows how to honor its best citizens of the past. On April 21, 1995, in a ceremony celebrated by the President of the Republic, François Mitterrand, the remains of Marie and Pierre Curie, which at the time were buried in the modest cemetery of Sceaux, were transferred to the Pantheon, the place designated by France for the transfer of the “great” hombres de la patriaka-C. Marie Skloriedws received this woman first.
“When we transfer the prizes of Pierre and Marie Curie to this sanctuary of our collective memory – said Mitterrand – France does not only recognize, but also on fe en la cienciain investigation and in respect for those who dedicate to her, like Pierre and Marie Curie, her strengths and her lives”.
“Since her childhood – said Mitterrand, showing the greatness that should be expected from the president of a nation with greatness – Marie Sklodowská resisted: against the humiliation of a foreign power, against the ‘difficult nature that is just to be overcome’, as she said of the same thing, against the fatality of the woman’s condition, against dogmas of all kinds that expected her to follow.
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