The Radiance

[Spoken: J. Robert Oppenheimer] We knew the world would not be the same Few people laughed, few people cried, most people were silent I remember the line from The Hindu Scripture, 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 another