Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atom bomb, on seeing the first explosion at the Trinity test site is reported to have said:
"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
One can only imagine that the people who thought that a sober and appropriate way to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the nuclear age was to set off a humungous firebomb in the middle of the desert would have said something like:
Heh. Heh. Nifty explosion dude ...
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