Hiroshima, the 6th August - TV screen (12)
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「我は死神なり。世界の破壊者なり」 -- Robert Oppenheimer's quote. "I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds."
-- TV screen, The TBS's News23, 6th August 2007.
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BBC's report on the YouTube BBC World channel:
youtube.com/watch?v=j5k3keyGbn8
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Oppenheimer
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that one way or another.'
-- Oppenheimer on an NBC television documentary broadcast in in 1965
