“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds“ , Trinity 1945

“We 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. “ Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and the scientific d