225 - Suburban Transpondency

Doomsday: The Atomic Age


 


 


Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you
*keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?



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.


-J. Robert Oppenheimer