Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds

J. Robert Oppenheimer famously spoke this quote of Krishna’s in the Bhagavad Gita in reference to the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. As a result, it is probably the most famous quote from the Bhagavad Gita in the Western world. Colin Marshall recently wrote a brief retrospective on Oppenheimer, the bomb, and … Continue reading Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds