"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, destroyer of worlds."
From the Bhagavad Gita, as quoted by Robert Oppenheimer, the "father" of the Bomb.
"Now we are all sons-of-bitches."
Dr. Kenneth Bainbridge, site director of the first explosion.
Both quoted in today's article in Wired.
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