If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky
That would be like the splendor of the Mighty one…
I am become Death,
The shatterer of Worlds.
—Baghavad-Gita
If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky
That would be like the splendor of the Mighty one…
I am become Death,
The shatterer of Worlds.
—Baghavad-Gita
If nobody gets the quote, it’s what Oppenheimer quoted upon witnessing the Trinity explosion in 1945. That comment about thermonuclear bombs made me think of it.