Thursday, November 3, 2011
12:13 PM ● explosive

"We knew the world would not be the same. Few people laughed, 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."
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, The Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965)

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