Julius Robert Oppenheimer

"...now I am become Death [Shiva], the destroyer of worlds..."
Physicist Robert Oppenheimer -Supervising Scientist Manhattan Project on 16 July 1945 at 0530 HRS,
in the Jornada del Muerto desert near
the Trinity site in the White Sands Missile Range.
...quoting from the Bhagavad-Gita upon
witnessing first atomic detonation by mankind.
"No beast is more savage than man,when possessed with power answerable to his rage"The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped..."

The exact quote from the Bhagavad-Gita is:
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.

The Dawn of the Atomic Age
"The Atomic Age began at exactly 5:30 Mountain War Time on the morning of July 15, 1945, on a stretch of semi-desert land about 5 airline miles from Alamogordo, New Mexico.
"And just at that instance there rose from the bowels of the earth a light not of this world, the light of many suns in one." William Laurence-New York Times-September 26, 1945

"Unleashing The Mighty Power of The Tiny Atom"

As the destructive power is imbedded in the atom, so are the acts of preservation, creation and destruction invested in the womb of Almighty Time. "I am Time Eternal " declares He in the the Geetha ("Kalosmi " ). Oppenheimer, the Father of the Atom Bomb quoted this verse from the Geetha when saw the first atomic explosion. To him, the destructive power of the atom was a mere manifestation of the destructive power of Time Eternal!