...witnessed it, the Trinity explosion ushered in a new and different world. Oppenheimer is quoted as follows: "We waited until the blast had passed, walked out...the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita: . . . 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' "4 Figure 12.3 J. Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie...

...Schaffer, Wings of Judgment, p. 161 . 28. Oppenheimer recalled that the scene after the blast was "entirely solemn. We knew the world would not be the same. ......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." Rhodes,...

...undreamed of by military prophets in the years between the wars. The Emergence of Nuclear Weapons 9 We waited until the blast had passed, walked out of...extremely solemn. 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...

...be — well, there it was. Oppenheimer looked again into the Gita for a model sufficiently scaled: We waited until the blast had passed, walked out of...extremely solemn. 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...

...came "an oppressive sense of foreboding." J. Robert Oppenheimer recalled a line from Hindu scripture: We waited until the blast had passed, walked out of...extremely solemn. 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...

...came "an oppressive sense of foreboding." J. Robert Oppenheimer recalled a line from Hindu scripture: We waited until the blast had passed, walked out of...extremely solemn. 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...

...Robert Oppenheimer, then director of the Los Alamos laboratory, made an analogy often repeated since: "We waited until the blast had passed, walked out...extremely solemn. 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...

...as quickly, the scientists began to realize what they had created. As Oppenheimer recalled in 1965, We waited until the blast had passed, walked out of...extremely solemn. 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...

...secrecy loosened. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, for instance, recalled: We waited until the blast had passed, walked out of the shelter and then it was entirely solemn. We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried....

...earlier. Oppenheimer, head of the American atomic bomb team, wrote that 'we knew the world could never be the same ... I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds'" (cited in Prins, 1983: 65). Oppenheimer's...