Peter Hoskin
pghoskin.bsky.social
Peter Hoskin
@pghoskin.bsky.social
Books & culture editor, Prospect magazine. Games critic, Daily Mail.
Reposted by Peter Hoskin
“Never once is it implied that it might be worse to be struck by an atom bomb than to make one.”

@pghoskin.bsky.social on how Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER turned nuclear scientists into brooding superheroes:
How the nuclear age bombed
Our discoveries in the subatomic realm promised to yield wonders. Instead, 80 years on from the first atomic bomb, a dark shadow has been cast across ...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
In which I am rightly mean about Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER…
80 years after Trinity, we’re 89 seconds from nuclear midnight…

@pghoskin.bsky.social reviews the brilliant new books that strip away the mythology and show us the cold reality of the bomb, including Serhii Plokhy’s THE NUCLEAR AGE:
How the nuclear age bombed
Our discoveries in the subatomic realm promised to yield wonders. Instead, 80 years on from the first atomic bomb, a dark shadow has been cast across ...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM