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I have become pee, the destroyer of poo
That’s not what he meant actually, the part he quotes is about a god being like “i have the power of death, what’s up” .
Oppenheimer didn’t say anything memorable at the time, he said in a later interview that he thought of that passage in the Bhagavad Gita, which totally means he read the passage sometime after the test and thought that would have been a cool thing to say right after.
The most memorable quote from that day was Bainbridge who said to Oppenheimer “Now we are all sons of bitches”. Like I don’t doubt the Trinity test really did bring home to all these university professors and swagless nerds that they had unleased a horrible new evil onto the world.
Really the only thing they could have done to redeem themselves was to tell the Soviets how to build the bomb, which granted like a third of them were already doing but that’s beside the point.
The inventor of the Maxim gun also thought that a weapon so destructive could be so terrifying that it would create world peace.
