We knew the world could 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: "I am became Death, the destroyers
of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
J Robert Oppenheimer, (1904-1967) American physicist, Recalling the
explosion of the first atomic bomb near Almogordo, New Mexico [Jul. 15,
1945]
