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