Robert Oppenheimer — "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people crie…"

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.
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NBC News documentary 'The Decision to Drop the Bomb'

Date: 1965

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