The Hand of God: From Oppenheimer to Hypersonics by Paul McCarthy – Review by Jenni Bishop

The Hand of God: From Oppenheimer to Hypersonics – A Crash Course on Nuclear Weapons and Humankind’s Most Dangerous Game by Paul McCarthy
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

4.5 Stars
It’s something you always know is there but it’s a scary when you actually read and stop to consider the amount of power that the military and world leaders have to access nuclear weapons.
Paul McCarthy gives us a fast-paced but thorough look at this technology that kills and that is in the hands of others and their whims and that one day it could be unleashed upon the world. God help us all if they should go on a power trip and unleash hell on earth.
His detailed writing gives the reader a science lesson in what a nuclear weapon is and its history and the destruction from the past and even scarier something that is easily imagined is what could be.
It makes me wonder what is in the minds of those that create or those that ordered such things to be created that could destroy us all. Do they feel any kind of remorse for what has been and what could be, or do they relish the power they have created? Do they feel compassion?
The Hand of God is one thought provoking book. It makes you feel, humble insignificant and powerless in comparison.
History does have a way of repeating itself and unfortunately, I don’t think that those in power and have not lived in a time where these weapons created so much devastation would think twice.
This thought-provoking book raises more questions.

Reviewed by @jennadb

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