Episode 536: The Manhattan Project Part IV - I Am Become Death
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The Bug of Our Gita
Robert Oppenheimer described the cloud as brilliant purple. That was of course because it was glowing with radiation. The thunder from the blast seemed to eternally echo through the canyon where the bomb was detonated. He said he remembered a line from the bug of our gita in which the Hindu god Vishnu is trying to persuade a prince that he should do his duty.
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