Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. This technology is depicted creating a blue Greek letter omega in the painting If All the World Were Paper and All the Water Sink by Jess. This technology led an artist to begin depicting his “favorite food for thought” in paintings such as Living Still Life. This technology inspired a bronze sculpture in the shape of a skull at the University of Chicago’s Mansueto Library by Henry Moore. Catholicism and this technology influenced Salvador Dalí’s “disintegration” of an earlier painting, exemplifying a form of “mysticism” named after this technology. In a 2023 blockbuster film, events caused by this technology are portrayed with slow-motion thermite reactions. For 10 points, name this technology used in weapons that are depicted in Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer. ■END■
ANSWER: nuclear energy [or nuclear power; or nuclear reactions; or atomic energy; or atomic power; or atomic reactions; accept nuclear weapons or nuclear bombs or atomic weapons or atomic bombs or A-bombs; accept Nuclear Mysticism; accept nuclear reactors or nuclear power plants; accept nuclear fission or nuclear fusion or atom splitting; prompt on bombs or weapons or explosives; prompt on reactors or power plants; reject “thermonuclear weapons” or “hydrogen bombs”] (The third sentence refers to Moore’s Nuclear Energy. The fourth sentence refers to Dalí’s Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory.)
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