"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 scriptures, 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 the other."
--J. Robert Oppenheimer
Manhattan Project
circa 1941-'45