The Decison to Drop the Bomb

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I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita…"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

J. Robert Oppenheimer

On the explosion of the first atomic bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16th, 1945.

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Oppenheimer, J. Robert. Quoted in NBC White Paper: The Decision to Drop the Bomb. Narrated by Chet Huntley, directed by Fred Freed and Len Giovannitti, written by Fred Freed, 5 Jan. 1965, NBC.