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The Decision to Drop the Bomb interview

The Decision to Drop the Bomb is a 1965 filmed interview in which J. Robert Oppenheimer reflects on the first atomic-bomb test. In the surviving segment, he recalls his reaction by citing his own English rendering of a verse from the Bhagavad Gita.

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“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

— J. Robert Oppenheimer《The Decision to Drop the Bomb interview》

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