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Old video of Oppenheimer quoting Bhagavad Gita after atomic bomb test resurfaces
short by Shreyasi Banerjee / on Sunday, 16 July, 2023
A clip from an old interview of scientist J Robert Oppenheimer, on whom Christopher Nolan's movie Oppenheimer is based, shows him quoting lines from Bhagavad Gita. Talking about his immediate feelings following the successful test of the atomic bomb, Oppenheimer said, "I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita...'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds'."
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