[kj] Author Norman Spinrad's use of the phrase "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns" in the 1970s

[powens]

It's originally from the bhagavad gita. Around the time jaz was talking in
interviews about parts of the desert in Egypts that had been turned to green
glass - hinting that the area had seen nuclear conflict long ago.

john-paul

On 15/01/2008, fatpotanga <fatpotanga at gmail.com> wrote:

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> the phrase originally comes from Oppenheimers (sp?) description of the

> atom bomb

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> On 15 Jan 2008, at 19:24, B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:

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> Is this a well known thing? Was reading a short story by sci-fi author

> Norman Spinrad today, "The Big Flash," about a rock group called the Four

> Horsemen who help provoke Armageddon. They use an uadio visual display for

> their band that includes a film with someone reciting the line "Brighter

> than a thousand suns..."

>

> Is this common Killing Joke lore? I was pretty stunned when I read this.

> The Spinrad story "The Big Flash" is in a collection of post-apocalyptic

> sci-fi and horror stories called _Beyond Armageddon_. Like I said, the story

> itself was written during the Nixon administration.

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> -Oliver

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