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When he witnessed the first successful test he was so overcome by what he had done that he quoted from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad-Gita - "I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds.
The day that the world REALLY changed forever; Witnessing the birth ... by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
It was Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, who, after the detonation of the first atomic bomb at the Trinity site in New Mexico, declared, citing the Hindu scripture Bhagavad-Gita, "I have become death, the shatterer of worlds.
Let's do away with nuclear bombs now by MATTHIESEN, LEROY T. / U.S. Catholic
Here, eros is the anarchic force, the shatterer of propriety.
Eca de Queiros by Coleman, Alexander / New Criterion
 
 
 
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