Who said Behold I am become Death the destroyer of worlds?

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2026-07-16 10:41

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J. Robert Oppenheimer was the scientist in charge of the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb in 1945. According to Oppenheimer, he saw the first bomb go off and remembered the text, "[Behold] I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

The quote is from the Hindu devotional poem, the Bhagavad Gita ("song of the blessed one" or "song of God"), circa 300 AD.

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