Friday, August 12, 2005

Well, yes….in modern history

"Well, yes….in modern history”
- J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1952, at a meeting at Rochester University answering the question if his bomb was the first nuclear bomb to be detonated in history.


Manhattan Project chief scientist Dr J. Robert Oppenheimer was known to be familiar with ancient Sanskrit literature. In an interview conducted after he watched the first atomic test, he quoted from the Bhagavad Gita: "'Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.' I suppose we all felt that way."

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