Created: 2023-10-08 15:55
Edited: 2023-10-08 16:02
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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.

Author: Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Source: From a 1965 TV broadcast about the moments following the first atomic bomb test.
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