Armageddon

• After watching the film, I was inspired to write about my visit to the actual Trinity Site, where the first atomic bomb was detonated.
• As part of my research on nuclear weapons and civil defence, I visited the Trinity Site in 2015.

Arriving at the site

• The Trinity Site is open to the public for only a few hours twice a year, by permission of the U.S. Army.
• The predicted popularity of Oppenheimer’s release will possibly overcrowd the next open house on Oct. 21.
• When I visited the site, I first had to make my way to a very remote area of the New Mexico desert.
• Arrival had to be well before sunrise to have any chance of being in the small group of persons granted entry.

Visiting the site

• The main attraction at the Trinity Site is a simple obelisk made of volcanic rocks marking Ground Zero.
• There are very few elements of interpretive information like what one would see at a museum.
• It served to occupy the attention of most visitors, who perhaps anticipated more to see and do.

Vaporized tower

• It was a fragment of the tower, and proof of physicist Albert Einstein’s theory that mass is just a concentrated form of energy.
• Einstein’s famous equation E=mc² explains the energy released in an atomic bomb, but did not explain how to build one.
• The tower that held the bomb last existed at 5:28 a.m. on July 16, 1945.
• The test vaporized the experimental structure, leaving behind a crater about 1.4 metres deep and 80 metres wide.

Entertainment from horror

• Other films go beyond this summer’s blockbuster to depict the full horror of what Oppenheimer created.
• Jon Else’s 1981 documentary, The Day After Trinity, shows the real history behind Nolan’s Oppenheimer.
• The 1983 made-for-TV movie, The Day After, dared to show the uncomfortable images of nuclear Armageddon to American audiences.

• Politicians and environmental organisations have invested millions trying to influence people’s behaviour and tackle the climate crisis.
• So instead, researchers are turning their attention to the link between people’s perception of time and the action they take on climate change.
• One of the main areas researchers are exploring is how people interpret the vast time scales needed to comprehend climate change.

It’s happening in your back yard

• However, people whose lives are just beginning to be touched by climate change perceive the time distance to be large.
• We should be tailoring adverts to show how climate change is affecting people in their city, their local beauty spots, and how this is happening right now.

Warping our sense of time

• For example, our sense of time changes as we age, often resulting in the sensation of time passing more quickly as we get older.
• It typically passes quickly when we are busy, happy and engaged, and slowly when we are sad, bored and isolated.
• This means we may be more perceptive to climate messaging depending on our mood and what’s going on in our lives.

Context is everything

• Is the past on the left or the right?
• If you grew up in a left-right reading and writing household, chances are the past is on the left and the future is on the right.
• If you grew up in a right-left reading and writing household the past will be on the right and the future on the left.

Time is precious

• Digital technology is speeding up the pace of life for many people and “hustle-culture” means some groups view busyness as an indicator of success.
• While sorting recycling may only take a few minutes, you need to feel like you have those minutes to spare.
• So we need to focus on reducing the time burden associated with environmentally friendly behaviour.

• It.com enters the world of chess with the "Intelligent game — Intelligent name," campaign that is devoted to exploring the nature of intelligence.
• The campaign will further popularize chess and will invite people around the world to join the game's community.
• "We are excited to partner with it.com for the Armageddon Championship Series 2023," said Ilya Merenzon, CEO of World Chess.
• "Together, we hope to explore the nature of intelligence and demonstrate that chess is a game everyone can play or watch.

• Chess Championship, his second national title after his draw in the final round against GM Levon Aronian, a first-time competitor in the U.S. Championship.
• Chess Championship, his second national title after his draw in the final round against GM Levon Aronian, a first-time competitor in the U.S. Championship.
• 20-year-old Woman Grandmaster Jennifer Yu was crowned 2022 U.S. Womens Champion, her second title after defeating eight-time U.S. Womens Champion GM Irina Krush in the playoff during an Armageddon tiebreak.
• The top two in the 2022 U.S. Womens Chess Championships, WGM Jennifer Yu and GM Irina Krush qualify for the Womens World Cup.