‘Now I Am Turn out to be Loss of life, the Destroyer of Worlds.’ The Story of Oppenheimer’s Notorious Quote | WIRED

In search of his counsel, Arjuna asks Krishna to disclose his common type. Krishna obliges, and in verse 12 of the Gita he manifests as a chic, terrifying being of many mouths and eyes. It’s this second that entered Oppenheimer’s thoughts in July 1945. “If the radiance of a thousand suns had been to burst … Read more