The writer recounts to her friends how it came about that a group of people, concerned by the nuclear issues of their time (the early years of the 21st Century), looked into the whole subject with a “feminine gaze”, and saw how there was a metaphysics of the atom that the scientific method could not see or register. The outcome of this approach opened the door to seeing how the atomic particles are social and sentient, the same as us humans. And how we have Humanity have the potential, and indeed the responsibility, to care for them and their world.