...rather, its allusion to the Gita is more likely about the bomb revealing itself to him, compelling him to battle, as Krishna did to Arjuna. Which makes it about responsibility and duty, rather than a claim to power.pic.twitter.com/ekwaHs3IMf
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...rather, its allusion to the Gita is more likely about the bomb revealing itself to him, compelling him to battle, as Krishna did to Arjuna. Which makes it about responsibility and duty, rather than a claim to power.pic.twitter.com/ekwaHs3IMf
Arthur Ryder, who taught Oppenheimer Sanskrit at Berkeley, authored his own very poetic (if unorthodox) translation of the Gita, which you can easily get online. Here's how Ryder translates the famous line: "Death am I, and my present task / Destruction." https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106016334002 …pic.twitter.com/sCWRsjvzGb
Hijiya's article on the Gita and Oppenheimer is excellent!
I prefer Bainbridge's "Now we are all sons of bitches."
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