Friday
November 14th
18:30
A test tube of radioactive gas thrown into a fountain, a sudden insight at a London traffic light, the discovery—almost by accident—that atoms can split. These seem like unrelated events, but instead they are the first tremors of an earthquake that will change the world: the explosion of the atomic bomb. Lorenzo Baravalle (The Society of Prophets: The Story of Those Who Built the Bomb, Those Who Stole It, and Those Who Refused It, Mondadori) recounts the lives of scientists who found themselves deciding the fate of humanity: why Hiroshima and Nagasaki are only the visible epilogue of a long chain of choices; why knowledge is a double-edged sword: it can open unimagined horizons, but it can also devastate. Moderated by Andrea Vico.
A test tube of radioactive gas thrown into a fountain, a sudden insight at a London traffic light, the discovery—almost by accident—that atoms can split. These seem like unrelated events, but instead they are the first tremors of an earthquake that will change the world: the explosion of the atomic bomb. Lorenzo Baravalle (The Society of Prophets: The Story of Those Who Built the Bomb, Those Who Stole It, and Those Who Refused It, Mondadori) recounts the lives of scientists who found themselves deciding the fate of humanity: why Hiroshima and Nagasaki are only the visible epilogue of a long chain of choices; why knowledge is a double-edged sword: it can open unimagined horizons, but it can also devastate. Moderated by Andrea Vico.
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