J. Robert Oppenheimer

Mexico, july 16, 1945 “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.“