Now I am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds

[McShaggswell]

He sounds so remorseful.

[WillyRand]

Well rehearsed.

[StrangeUkulele]

Oppenheimer showed tension and relief during and after the detonation...He volunteered his expertise for the Manhattan project, he understood what was required and the outcome ...The push for the bomb was made all the more urgent because Germany looked like they were close to cracking it more than a swift end to the war with Japan...There is no doubt Oppenheimer was a genius, but owners of brilliant minds are very driven, morality,regret and guilt can often be a afterthought..

[stevenbohorquez92]

on April 5 1945 the soviets actually renounced their neutrality pact with the Japanese and they were completely unable to gain more resources with more diplomatic pressure we could have ended the war with out dropping the bomb but the Japanese are notoriously stubborn and the bomb probably made Americans feel better be cause of the baton death march

[monptii]

German genius.

[THEOakiie]

Monstersyc - Paralysis

[djsharkboy123]

Linkin park brought me here...

[Akureilly]

@djsharkboy123 same as there is suggests of Linkin Park

[mafiahamid]

FUUCK THIS MAN AND USA

[originallove911]

Nagasaki one had a plutonium in it. a plutonium for women,children,babies were there, you guys better be awaken. after Japan, you guys took over 80 milions of lives in this last 50 years ,since AFTER THE WW2 in all over the world. face the facts.

[Eartia]

otherway around. nagasaki had the Implosion design tested at trinity, while the heroshima bomb was a gun-type that wasnt testet as it was thought to be a garunteed success.

[Unnatural09]

The emperor is considered the son of Heaven. If the son of heaven is surrendering the people will follow.

[HairLikeCottonCandy]

this is strangely funny. I don't expect to hear the words"Vishnu" and "multi-armed form" when discussing the seriousness of nuclear weapons.

[Shiva88krishna]

@HairLikeCottonCandy U didn't understand what he was supposed to say, he is terribly sad because his invention has caused huge destruction, immense human life lose, and being a humble, great human being he was not able to take it easily, he feels one way or other he was also responsible for tragedy in Japan, then he realises what he has performed is his duty as a scientist,because the same situation is faced by Arjun during Mahabarath war and Vishnu persuade him to perform his duty to kill evil

[diotough]

@Shiva88krishna Not quite right. He was talking about the moment when "The Gadget", the first a-bomb in history was fired in Los Alamos back in 1945 when they realized what they actually had created. The immense power they had released and he himself, the father of this project became death, the power strong enough to destroy planets, to wipe out mankind. A truly horrible finding.

[Shiva88krishna]

@diotough I believe he is giving this speech after the Japan attack if I am not wrong, because we can see he is wiping his tears...I won't say it's a horrible finding by the Oppenheimer, because already many countries are in to this research and America was able to achieve this first because of this man, and if in case such weapon was in pocession of Hitler or even the leadership of Japan then today the world won'd be same...I believe the bombing of Japan made the WW2 end sooner...

[diotough]

@Shiva88krishna Yes, this interview was recorded years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki but he was talking about Los Alamos. And by the time Hiroshima and Nagasaki got bombed with nuclear weapons, the war was almost over, Japan was almost beaten. It was a test of how such a bomb would actually perform. It was a crime on humanity. Oppenheimer realized that he opened Pandora's Box and the world wouldn't be the same anymore, would have to face eternal fear of complete annihilation.

[Unnatural09]

@diotough Ya not trying to argue just stating points. The point of the atomic bombs were to break Japan's spirit which they couldn't break by dropping countless bombs on Japan, killing their Soldiers or civilians. If they didn't drop the bomb the war would have gone on till the mid 50s. Many more US troops and Japanese Troops would have died. Even Truman hated the idea. It was a lessor of two evils. Like he said. Even after the A. bombs Japan didn't surrender but the emperor did.

[bp8322]

@diotough Hiroshima was not a test (perhaps Nagasaki was as it was a different type of warhead). At the time the calculation was that the allies (mostly the US) would loose another million troops trying to take the home islands of Japan, given their experience of how entrenched the Japanese were on the smaller islands. Be glad that none of us has had to go through either of the World wars and that a thermonuclear weapon has ever been used in anger.

[Blackdragon52k]

This man was a genius, and that genius was exploited.

[44ky1]

The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Time I am, the great destroyer of the worlds, and I have come here to destroy all people. With the exception of you [the Pāṇḍavas], all the soldiers here on both sides will be slain.

- Bhagavad-gītā As It Is 11.32

[diotough]

@44ky1 There are several different translations. Oppenheimer knew Sanskrit so he was able to read to original text, so I guess his translation is just as good (or maybe even better) then any other.

[44ky1]

@diotough not judging the translation haha, i am just putting up the verse haha

[diotough]

@44ky1 Just wanted to point out the difference. Your translation says "Time I am", though Oppenheimer translated this part with "Now I am become death". It is not quite common to translate it that way, but Sanskrit can't be translated literally.

[use11111111]

He is just so, his voice really put you in a different place and what he says just makes you think so much. Its amazing

[SpaceRangerification]

never trust a government of any kind

[andrewichigo]

You can feel the remorse in his voice. Great physicist.

[ledzeppelinjulian]

This is quite possibly the most beautiful thing said about something so horrible.

[hurleyfan324]

@ledzeppelinjulian it really shows how much regret we felt afterwards

[islamloverist]

actually leo szilard is the one who got the manhattan project going, and proposed the idea of a nuclear weapon, not opprenhiemer

[InsertJoinTT]

fucking pig

[TrampVamp]

What is this in reference to?

[epicmeade]

@TrampVamp Oppenheimer was one of the main scientists who developed the atomic bomb. and he is talking about his reaction as he and his coworkers watched the first nuclear detonation in the nevada desert.

[vineetkumarsaxena]

@TrampVamp He is father of Atom Bomb. This speech he gave after first test Trinity

[Shimontr]

shut up about linkin park

[Destroysall]

man...

[kolo10017]

Linkin Park - The Radiance 

[BrammeeuwFilth]

Origin - Antithesis, anyone?

[wok5183vaibhav]

@BrammeeuwFilth its from Bhagavat gita holy book of hindus..

[wok5183vaibhav]

@BrammeeuwFilth this is from bhagavat gita holy book of hindu

[X4G10NeX]

this is quoted in the radiance by linkin park

[tss3393]

Like memories in cold decay, transmissions echoing away, far from the world of you and I, where oceans bleed into the sky...

[MrsMsMr]

Unglaublich, wie ein so einfacher Text berühren kann.

[Cinescapes]

The dramatic fall is the number of human casualties of war was in direct correlation with the advent of the atomic bomb. It is the single most effective deterrent of large scale armed conflict. Also, an offshore demonstration of it effectiveness would have been the consensus of the scientific community of the time. rather than a vaporization of a Japanese city.

[CyReNiUsX]

@Cinescapes But if there is ever a nuclear war it will take only a few hours for the death count to catch up...

[OswaldtheFourth]

Oh christ

[IAmTheWarbringer]

Opposite, inversion, polarize, ostrasize

Counteract, rise against, oppose all, agonize

[Blacksun388]

The man looks like he is about to cry. As if he never wanted to witness what he made. I would guess that every man on the project felt some form of regret or disgust. They probably felt like they had ushered in the end of all mankind by building one bomb.

If I were there then I'd probably feel the same.

[Jutzujin]

@Blacksun388 They assured M.A.D., that's about it. What Oppenheimer created is arguably the best and worst deterrent to another world war.. Who knows..

[mahender6969]

look on his faces, you can tell he wish he never taking any part of this project.

[roacher420]

In the ancient astronaut theory, the stories of Bhagavad-Gita are real historical events. They had advance technological weapons that could destroy us all, and even this planet. F*ckin' aliens! lol Tha sh*t is real. Do your research<<<<

[MrTrykster]

@roacher420

yes :)

[crazygeek777]

@roacher420 sure, bro, sure. the only problem with that hypothesis is that we can trace our lineage back to reptiles...

[vikingvic]

@roacher420 you have our caretakers, whom also have duty to maintain the earth itself - from destruction - foreign or domestic - aswell as its life, including us, always supervising and helping us to our path to ascension.

then you have the runway 'cosmic criminals', and criminal earthlings (most societies end up having around 5% 'dark ones' which have more sinister agendas. humanity was enslaved for millennia, up to this day, but by 'miracle', we may finally wake up as a group and move on.

[Markified1]

Linkin Park, The Radiance

[TAFKASYFY]

Never forget Oppenheimer

[wksexton]

How profound! Beautifully articulated.