• I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita... "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

    J. Robert Oppenheimer: I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita... "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
    "NBC White Paper (The Decision to Drop the Bomb)". Documentary, January 5, 1965.