First microseconds of atomic blast.
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few
people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the
Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the
Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his
multi-armed form and says, “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of
worlds.” I suppose we all thought that one way or another.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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