@sur_27J. Robert Oppenheimer watched the first atomic bomb detonate in Alamogordo on 16 July 1945. Eight seconds after the blast, at 05:29:53, he recalled a line from the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

@sur_27J. Robert Oppenheimer watched the first atomic bomb detonate in Alamogordo on 16 July 1945. Eight seconds after the blast, at 05:29:53, he recalled a line from the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”