Exploring the Cold War and its effects now, Meiya Rollins PO ’29 reflects on the exhibition “Atomic Dragons” at the Pitzer Art Galleries. From her previous readings in her curation class, she was instantly tethered to Judtih Dancoff’s work. Judith Dancoff narrates her own experiences of her father working on the Manhattan Project with Oppenheimer. Rollins describes the letters between Dancoff’s father and Oppenheimer in the piece, “The Dancoff Factor,” where they are a “window into their relationship with each other and their work. It was work that slowly killed them, but quickly destroyed the lives of so many.”
Tag: Nuclear Weapons
Kit’s Controller Corner: Fighting the man who sold the world — Metal Gear Solid and the military-industrial complex
Video games are often accused of desensitizing violence. Video game columnist Kit Kumar CM ‘26 takes a look at “Metal Gear” and how the game criticizes senseless violence and the military industrial complex.