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A passage from the Bhagavad-Gita, the sacred epic of the Hindus, flashed into his mind:
"If the radiance of a thousand suns | were to burst into the sky, | that would be like | the splendor of the Mighty One—"
Yet, when the sinister and gigantic cloud rose up in the far distance over Point Zero, he was reminded of another line from the same source:
"I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds." (da Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists, New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1958, p. 201; citato in James A. Hijiya, The Gita of J. Robert Oppenheimer) (it) |
