Emilio Segre Quotes
The Most Striking Impression Was That Of An Overwhelming Bright Light. I Had Seen Under Similar Conditions The Explosion Of A Large Amount - 100 Tons - Of Normal Explosives In The April Test, And I Was Flabbergasted By The New Spectacle. We Saw The Whole Sky Flash With Unbelievable Brightness In Spite Of The Very Dark Glasses We Wore. Our Eyes Were Accommodated To Darkness, And Thus Even If The Sudden Light Had Been Only Normal Daylight It Would Have Appeared To Us Much Brighter Than Usual, But We Know From Measurements That The Flash Of The Bomb Was Many Times Brighter Than The Sun. In A Fraction Of A Second, At Our Distance, One Received Enough Light To Produce A Sunburn. I Was Near Fermi At The Time Of The Explosion, But I Do Not Remember What We Said, If Anything. I Believe That For A Moment I Thought The Explosion Might Set Fire To The Atmosphere And Thus Finish The Earth, Even Though I Knew That This Was Not Possible.
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