Prelude
December 29 1939 North Sea
The morning sun illuminated the subsiding smoke clouds following the testing, creating a calming yellow glow to fall upon the scene. On the beach the ocean lapped against the rocky shore as men skittered across the sand like roaches. Two individuals, scientists, stood still against the turmoil of the military units behind them on the raised embankment, and stared out at the open sea. The eldest man finally slipped the goggles down from his eyes to around his neck, hanging loosely and swaying slightly in the breeze.
“Did you need anything Albert? Do you want me to go?”, the first man said.
“No please stay, I could use a friendly face at a time like this”, the elder man replied.
“Of course sir”, he said with a slight grin towards his friend.
“Are you familiar with Hindu scripture, Felix?” Albert asked.
“Not very sir, perhaps you’d like to enlighten me”
“The words of Krishna in the Bagavha Gita, upon looking at the destruction he had created he said, ’Now, I am become Death, destroyer of worlds’
“… Seems appropriate I imagine.”
Albert knelt down and began running his fingers through the sand, “Yes….are you also familiar with the writings of another fallen civilization, that man brings with him his own destruction?”
Felix thought for a moment than asked, “What civilization might that be sir?”
He sat silently for a moment, then spoke “….ours….”
Dr Albert Einstein rose and then waked away after that point, climbing into a military convoy, leaving his college to ponder at the twilight event and embarking for god knows where; he had done his part, which was more than he could bear. The results were relayed to the laboratories at Peenemunde and the government buildings in Berlin.
Germany had tamed the atom.
American central forces were closing in on the Italians in Rome.
The People’s Army was plowing through the Balkans.
British and Dutch tanks were rolling pass the palace at Versailles.
The Austrian front was being pushed further into the German country side.
And the angels in heaven began to weep.
December 29 1939 North Sea
The morning sun illuminated the subsiding smoke clouds following the testing, creating a calming yellow glow to fall upon the scene. On the beach the ocean lapped against the rocky shore as men skittered across the sand like roaches. Two individuals, scientists, stood still against the turmoil of the military units behind them on the raised embankment, and stared out at the open sea. The eldest man finally slipped the goggles down from his eyes to around his neck, hanging loosely and swaying slightly in the breeze.
“Did you need anything Albert? Do you want me to go?”, the first man said.
“No please stay, I could use a friendly face at a time like this”, the elder man replied.
“Of course sir”, he said with a slight grin towards his friend.
“Are you familiar with Hindu scripture, Felix?” Albert asked.
“Not very sir, perhaps you’d like to enlighten me”
“The words of Krishna in the Bagavha Gita, upon looking at the destruction he had created he said, ’Now, I am become Death, destroyer of worlds’
“… Seems appropriate I imagine.”
Albert knelt down and began running his fingers through the sand, “Yes….are you also familiar with the writings of another fallen civilization, that man brings with him his own destruction?”
Felix thought for a moment than asked, “What civilization might that be sir?”
He sat silently for a moment, then spoke “….ours….”
Dr Albert Einstein rose and then waked away after that point, climbing into a military convoy, leaving his college to ponder at the twilight event and embarking for god knows where; he had done his part, which was more than he could bear. The results were relayed to the laboratories at Peenemunde and the government buildings in Berlin.
Germany had tamed the atom.
American central forces were closing in on the Italians in Rome.
The People’s Army was plowing through the Balkans.
British and Dutch tanks were rolling pass the palace at Versailles.
The Austrian front was being pushed further into the German country side.
And the angels in heaven began to weep.
