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Jul 21, 2023 · As he witnessed the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on July 16, 1945, a piece of Hindu scripture ran through the mind of J. Robert Oppenheimer: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of...
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Jul 24, 2023 · As Oppenheimer recalled in a 1965 NBC News documentary called The Decision to Drop the Bomb, he thought of Hindu scripture while watching the first-ever atomic bomb explode during the Trinity Test: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
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Aug 6, 2011 · The profound moment when science met conscience. Step into the mind of the excellent physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who spoke these haunting words after witnessing the first successful...
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Jul 21, 2023 · July 21, 2023. From Universal Pictures. It’s unlikely, if not impossible, that J. Robert Oppenheimer and Jean Tatlock’s first tryst was punctuated by Tatlock asking the physicist to translate...
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Aug 1, 2023 · Learn the origin and meaning of the famous quote from J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, who cited a Hindu scripture after witnessing the Trinity Test. Discover how the film "Oppenheimer" uses the quote and other myths to explore the scientist's life and legacy.
Oct 24, 2023 · J Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atom bomb, quoted from the Bhagavad Gita, a Sanskrit scripture, when he witnessed the Trinity explosion in 1945. The Gita is a philosophical poem that explores the dilemma of righteous action in a world of violence and uncertainty.
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He died four years later, of throat cancer. In 2022, the federal government vacated the 1954 revocation of his security clearance. Early life. Childhood and education.