Epstein Secrets

or of the roast, film critic Digby Diehl, read a telegram from Isaac Asimov, which concluded, “Kick him in the balls—signed, Frank Sinatra.” Onstage, Asimov’ s_ fellow science-fiction writer Robert Silverberg announced that “Harlan Ellison is so short that he goes up on HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015384 his girlf

Do you people think yourselves better because you burned your enemies at long distance with missiles without ever seeing what you had done to them? Hiroshima auf Wiedersehen. [German accent ends.] If we would have lost the war, they would have strung Truman up by the balls, Jim. Are you kidding with that?

etent at intelligent human (Chinese) conversation, unless a human can identify the source of the consciousness and “feel” it. Enforced preference for Asimov’s First and Second Laws favor human minds over any other mind meekly present in his Third Law, of self-preservation. 170 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016973 If

et about the production of nuclear weapons, he wrote, was whether such bombs could be built. Once that secret had been revealed, with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, no amount of state-imposed secrecy would stop others from puzzling through chains of reasoning like those the Manhattan Project researc

etent at intelligent human (Chinese) conversation, unless a human can identify the source of the consciousness and “feel” it. Enforced preference for Asimov’s First and Second Laws favor human minds over any other mind meekly present in his Third Law, of self-preservation. 170 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016390 If

et about the production of nuclear weapons, he wrote, was whether such bombs could be built. Once that secret had been revealed, with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, no amount of state-imposed secrecy would stop others from puzzling through chains of reasoning like those the Manhattan Project researc