On the eve of remembering both the dropping of the first atom bomb in warfare and of the feast of the Tranfiguration, I pass on a thought with cultural as well as moral significance. "Where Macdonald was surely right was to say that nuclear weapons - or what President Harry Truman called 'the greatest achievement of organised science in history' - had rendered obsolete the very concept of material, scientific 'progress'. As the great and heroic Simone Weil had said before her death two years earlier, the evil in modern war was now the technical aspect itself rather than political factors. Everything that has happened since has only confirmed that truth."
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