Sunday, December 29, 2013

J Robert Oppenheimer Now I Am Become Death Quote Post Card


Infamous quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer in reference to the Trinity test in New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was detonated. Quote comes from the Bhagavad Gita: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one. Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." No need to be a theoretical physicist to enjoy this historical quote by the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II project that developed the first nuclear weapons!

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