How powerful is a nuclear bomb, exactly? Just... how powerful is it?
What is the greatest invention of destruction created by human hands capable of? What is the extent of it's power? What is the range? What is the deciding factor? What is it, even?
A nuclear bomb is simply an invention, created to alleviate man's fear of the other man, and to serve as a shield, as well as a throne. It is the hammer through which man dictates law, obedience, and cruelty upon another.
It is the ultimate weapon.
There is a moment, it is impossibly brief, cosmically... indifferent. Between the world as it was and the world as it would never stop being. A seam in time so thin it could not be measured and so absolute it could never be crossed back over. The bomb does not announce itself. It does not build to its conclusion. It simply decides, in the language of physics rather than intention, that everything within its reach belongs to it now.
And then it speaks.
No, it roars.
It begins as light.
