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J. 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.”

Oppenheimer Bhagavad Gita quote atomic bomb

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J. 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.”

Oppenheimer Bhagavad Gita quote atomic bomb

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