Cycles

"Nothing ends Adrain, nothing ever ends" (Chapter 12, Page 27, Panel 5)

This is Dr. Manhattan's reply when Adrain questions whether or not his actions of murdering many innocent people to save humanity is right in the end. Veidt is deeply concerns with this comment, proven by his worried face in the last panel of page 27. Truman's decition to drop atomic bombs on Hioshima and Nagasaki in order to save American lives resembles Veidt's decition, but is less extreme. Humanity repeats their own mitakes throughout history on large and small scales. Adrian realizes that he had been nearsighted while formulating his plans and that he did not entirely save humanity from disaster. Truman's decition did not prevent Veidt decition which contained a larger consequence. This means that the occurance of a similiar disaster has the potential to be highly likely and even greater than the present conflict. He is aware that, even though he can catch a bullet, he is human and cannot prevent future generations from making the same or similiar to the mistake he was trying to prevent.