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Oppenheimer, the principle developer of the atomic bomb, wrote later that during the explosion of the first atomic bomb, he immediately recalled something from the Bhagavad-gita -- "Death I am, cause of destruction of the worlds..."
 
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13 posted on 09/16/2010 7:27:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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Interestingly, some translations of the Bhagavad Gita render the line, “I am become Time, the destroyer of worlds.”


14 posted on 09/16/2010 7:29:26 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("A litte plain food, and a philosophic temperament, are the only necessities of life."~W. Churchill)
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