October 22, 2004

Course Asks Students to Imagine Nuclear Annihilation

By DANIEL ENGBER

What would happen if an atomic bomb hit your town over Thanksgiving break? Which buildings would be destroyed, and which would remain?

Karen S. Harpp asks her students at Colgate University in to imagine such a nuclear attack and then, applying what they have learned in the course, "Advent of the Atomic Bomb," to describe it in a classroom presentation. The exercise helps them to appreciate how destructive a single bomb could be. Otherwise, she explains, "the magnitude of everything is

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