Ironed Maidens: There is no Robert in the Bible. The name originated in proto-Germanic.
"Robert" is most likely Julius Robert Oppenheimer, who headed the team who designed the first nuclear test and was greatly troubled by what he was doing.
The title of the song comes from a line from the Bhagavad Gita that Oppenheimer said he recalled as he watched the Trinity explosion: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendour of the mighty one". He also quoted "Now I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds".
Seems the concept of "playing god" with nuclear weapons is based on Oppenheimer's ideas.
The "iron fingers" are not missiles, they are the steel pylons they built in the desert, both to hold the warhead (simulating an above-ground explosion), and to support the cameras and other instruments used.
I think it's "raze [destroy] a city" not "raise a city", but if it is "raise" then I think it refers to the large-scaled mockups of cities that were built for later tests to see what the Bomb did to buildings. Some of these even had human-shaped dummies inside - really creepy.
Also, might "We will feel the pain of his beginning" be about the vengeful old-testament God?
Ironed Maidens: There is no Robert in the Bible. The name originated in proto-Germanic.
"Robert" is most likely Julius Robert Oppenheimer, who headed the team who designed the first nuclear test and was greatly troubled by what he was doing.
The title of the song comes from a line from the Bhagavad Gita that Oppenheimer said he recalled as he watched the Trinity explosion: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendour of the mighty one". He also quoted "Now I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds".
Seems the concept of "playing god" with nuclear weapons is based on Oppenheimer's ideas.
The "iron fingers" are not missiles, they are the steel pylons they built in the desert, both to hold the warhead (simulating an above-ground explosion), and to support the cameras and other instruments used.
I think it's "raze [destroy] a city" not "raise a city", but if it is "raise" then I think it refers to the large-scaled mockups of cities that were built for later tests to see what the Bomb did to buildings. Some of these even had human-shaped dummies inside - really creepy.
Also, might "We will feel the pain of his beginning" be about the vengeful old-testament God?
The line "We are not his chosen people now" is also a reference to Oppenheimer since he was Jewish.
The line "We are not his chosen people now" is also a reference to Oppenheimer since he was Jewish.