Within four years, however, the Soviet Union also had the bomb and not long after so did other nations. My birthplace, the U of C, was also the birthplace of the atomic bomb, which had been conceived there a couple of years before. It seemed to me to depict both the atomic bomb and the human brain that conceived it. Even though those parties’ ambitions may trigger another world war, this time an atomic world war. I will turn 80 in a few days and so will my age-mate the atomic bomb.