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After having repeatedly “surprised by the night” (name of the show of Alain Veinstein) and had cross the summer of 2024 with Christophe Columbus, Stéphane Bonnefoi produced, within the framework of the “Grandes Crossings” of France Culture, a podcast on the atomic bomb. A subject that seems a priori little conducive to summer heat, but a series of remarkable interest.
Chronological, it is also highly metaphysical. Albert Camus was one of the first to say things as they are: August 8, 1945, two days after the bombing of Hiroshima, he wrote in the newspaper Combat : “Mechanical civilization has just reached its last degree of savagery. »» For his part, Günther Anders (1902-1992) poses a moral question: how did we accept this? For the German philosopher, whose reflections nourish all this podcast, one of the “virtues” of nuclear age is “The courage to be afraid”as he records it in Hiroshima is everywhere (1956).
August 6, 1945, at 8:15 am and 17 seconds, after forty-three seconds of fall, the atomic bomb Little Boy causes the death of nearly 200,000 people. Three days later, Fat Man Exploded in the sky of Nagasaki, as it is recalled in episode 2, while the next attaches to the arms race, and the last question questions the future of this weapon which, in dust and radiation, sees nothing of its victims.
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