in July 16th, 1945, in the mountains outside of Los Alamos, New Mexico, the world’s first atomic bomb exploded.
a white light pierced the sky with such intensity that a blind girl claimed to see the flash from a hundred miles away.
after witnessing the explosion, J. Robert Oppenheimer quoted a fragment of the Bhagavad Gita, declaring; “i am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
his colleague, Ken Bainbridge, put it another way when he leaned close to Oppenheimer and whispered; “now we’re all sons of bitches.”