Nov 18, 2025
We watched Oppenheimer and felt the weight, but the Manhattan Project never packed up and went home. It morphed—into deterrence budgets that dwarf nations, into small modular reactors guided by AI, into the strategic choices we’re making right now under AUKUS. Australia isn’t a bystander. We dig the uranium out of the ground, we host the listening posts, and we’re stepping closer to the nuclear propulsion world. It’s not about fear. It’s about recognising we’re already inside the frame of a story that began in 1942—and asking, gently, what kind of ancestors we want to be for the kids growing up in this century.