“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 scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.” J. Robert Oppenheimer (who was able to read Sanskrit and translated Sanskrit poetry as a hobby), recalling his thoughts on witnessing the explosion of the first atomic bomb at the Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1945. (http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/156393640258/alfred-eisenstaedt-theoretical-physicist-j?is_related_post=1)