Thursday, November 4, 2010

"Now we are all sons of bitches."






"Now we are all sons of bitches." Trinity test director Kenneth Bainbridge commented to J. Robert Oppenheimer after seeing the incomprehensible power of the world's first nuclear explosion.

"Everything emanates from me."



"Everything emanates from me." From the Bhagavad Gita.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."




"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."  J. Robert Oppenheimer was reminded of this line from the  Bhagavad Gita upon watching the world's first nuclear test, Trinity, in July of 1945.