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I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds.

Source: quoting a line from the Bhagavad Gita that came to his mind at the test of the first atom bomb, July 16, 1945, cited in N. P.
-- J Robert Oppenheimer, (Apr 22 1904-1967), US physicist; The Father of the Atom Bomb headed Los Alamos, NM lab A-bomb team.

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