Sunday, August 06, 2006

Brighter than one thousand suns

Hiroshima. 08:16am. Monday. 6 August. 1945.






















Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atom bomb, later lamented the enormous destructive power which he had helped unleash, with a line from the Bhagavad-Gita: 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'

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