John Preskill
speaker
321 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 29 May
John Preskill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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and billow a little bit and get a little bit black around the edges.
And then you see it's a big ball of smoke with flashes on the inside of the fire going out, the heat.
And all this took about one minute.
Finally, after about a minute and a half, suddenly there's a tremendous noise.
Bang!
And then rumbles like thunder.
And that's what convinced me.
Nobody had said a word during this whole minute.
We were all just watching quietly.
But this sound released everybody because the solidity of the sound at that distance meant that it really worked.
The man who was standing next to me said, what's that?
I said, that was the bomb.
A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.
That bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of TNT.
With this bomb, we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction.
I remember being in New York with my mother in a restaurant right after, immediately after.
I would see people building a bridge and I would say they don't understand.
I really believe that it was senseless to make anything because it would all be destroyed very soon anyway.
I'm John Preskill.
I am the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology.
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