J. Robert Oppenheimer: "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
yewtu.beWe 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.
emoticons OP wrote
https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/chapter/11/verse/12
https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/chapter/11/verse/32
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer
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