[AnAmericanInEngland]

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

J. Robert Oppenheimer

[lbryce]

Before changing to my current tagline, my previous tagline was Obama:Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

[Mr. K]

Oppenheimer speaking in a 1965 television broadcast about the moments following the Trinity test: “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 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.”