I understand conflict is a part of the human psyche, but in an advanced society as ours we shold not need to resort to war to resolve these conflicts. We are the most intelligent species on this planet but still we have not figured out a way to live in peace. I would glady live in a world without the advanced technology we have today knowing that mankind was not able to commit the atrocities that has been done throughout history. Saying this i know war has been one of the largest reasons to cre
@Iamacompletejoke Advanced and intelligent...are you kidding? Advanced, look to the natural world around you, it's all thousands of times more efficient and effective than what we create from it. Intelligent, MOST intelligent even, a vomit inducing notion to my ears. That very delusion is the foundation for our downfall. We have potential, but we refuse to acknowledge it because we tell ourselves such things. We deny understanding in exchange for the comfort of knowledge.
@littleflutterby88 No. No no no no no. I reject every part of that. Never write about a brilliant physicist and your hideous music taste in the same sentence again.
The prince Oppenheimer is referring to is Arjuna, the Pandava prince. During the the Kurukshetra War, Arjuna was saddened that the opposing army consisted of many of his friends and family. Vishnu, in the form of his avatar Lord Krishna, explains to Arjuna why he should carry out his duty of fighting in battle. This correspondence between Krishna and Arjuna is what the Bhagavad Gita is based.
@Varoonmg There are various translations. Interesting you should say "Hindus have been reading it as -Time-" when Ramananda Prasad translates it, "I am death, the mighty destroyer of the world, out to destroy." There are always inconsistencies in translations. But you are right, there is a strong defense for it being "Time" and not "Death".
he knew in that moment, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he had created a key that could open MANY doors; one of them leading to the destruction of mankind. how does one tell a God to "stop being sad".?
another manifestation of Siva in the form of destruction (Shiva), forming part of the creation (Brahma) and perservation (Vishnu) cycle or the hindu form of darwinism if you will...the real quote gives me goosebumps...enthusiasm?
Oppenheimer's hope was that humanity's realization of its terrible power would be sufficient to engender the wisdom not to abuse it. Clearly, we have not seen that day yet, but I hold out hope that it is coming.
@fennecfanatic Wrong. Oppenheimers hope - like the hope of all Oppenheimers before and after him, and which mirror the hope of his fellow plutocratic coreligionists - is the hope for world domination.
@redcorona14 It's sad to see that despite all that the Jews suffered some still find a way to post unashamedly Anti Semite comments whenever they have the opportunity....
@Varoonmg Jews didnt suffer anything. They just made up a great story and used their insane wealth to buy up every media source which allowed them to sell such an outrageous lie.
Sorry, I have no sympathy for crocodile tears. Never forget - no Jews died in Gas chambers. It's all a lie.
Oh shut the fuck up. Everyone's suffered at one point or another. Jewish suffering is overly emphasized in media and academia because there's so many Jews in media & academia. And in their world, they're the only ones that matter. To them, fuck the 20 million dead Russians...it's all about the Holocaust. Oy vey!
"The Jews desire to be the bride at every wedding, and the corpse at every funeral." After being kicked from so many countries, you gotta think maybe, just maybe, it's them.
@jackiedegracia You do realize this quote is about him working on the team that created nuclear weapons don't you? He's expressing what could best be described as guilt.
@HiShutUpRok Because he saying he became the Destroyer, The End, Death. I am the Destroyer. I am become Death. This man. He wasn't a human. He cast out his humanity years before. And he told people that to do this unforgivable deed. He had to not be a human. But he saw the future. He wanted this. He wanted a world where humans wouldn't live everyday to kill one another. He did this, to save us in the end. To make sure that people know there is an end. So people try to prevent it from happening.
@ILoveHaji You understand why, right? He was basically the "Father" of the atomic bomb. He helped develop a weapon that can wipe out a city in an instant, killing more than a hundred thousand people. He has that realization of what he has done, and it has changed him.
@TheSeiifu Did Oppenheimer really want to use the bomb against Germany and not Japan? Was his being Jewish a factor in that? Anyway, he and his friends helped put the future of the world perhaps in danger forever-may they rot in hell.
The US used it against Japan because they thought that unless they did so, the War would go for years and years as the Japanese had to intention to give up
Otherwise, Einstein unwillingly triggerred the Manhattan Project in a letter to President Roosevelt where he didn't tell him to create the Bomb but underlined that Germany was on the verge of doing so
He later bitterly regreted it because after the War it was found that Germany was far from its objective...
We knew the world would not be the same. Few people laughed, 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.
The full quote is "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One. I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds". -- The Bagavad Gita
It's up to you to decide the subtext, but he's literally saying that men now have the destructive power of gods. YOU DON'T DO THAT. You just don't, I mean I'm not the most religious person but the point is we can very well destroy the world if we want to. It's so disturbing and horrifying and I think that's what he's trying to say.
@SlaytonMarx He is not trying to sound arrogant at all. Quite the opposite, he is expressing the deepest sadness and regret for the world. He knew that he had created something powerful, even evil perhaps. By admitting his remorse and shame for his creation he has shown humility and bravery. He is to be shown your respect. Who are you to criticize this great man?
@BrutalToad I am respecting him, my point is not that he was arrogant, quite the contrary, I was pointing out perhaps what he meant by his quote. That the action of creating the atom bomb gave terrible powers of destruction to mankind, whether or not it was a necessity of the war. He is acknowledging the implications of this in his quote and showing remorse with the fact that the world is now a much more dangerous place.
Jews usually have no remorse. To me it is all acting. What else have they created that are destroyers of worlds.... compound interest, fiat currency, ponzi schemes, specualtion, original sin with guilt and shame.... nuclear weapons were just there means to make sure they can keep being destroyers.
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.
Along time ago me and my fellow bandmate came across this footage and were moved to create a piece of music to document the emotional distress Oppenheimer was under. The track turned out to be very dark and powerful, and we felt it did justice to what Oppenheimer is clearly crying about in his speech.
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Clearly, the people who wrote the Bhagavat Gita were the same people who made the best goddamn games of all time, Zero Wing. Cookies if you understood the reference.
@CrazyBeanBurrito - that's ironic, you took ye-olde-English translations of the Aryan text and thought of Engrish, which is of course a Japanese phenomenon, that as markets opened elsewhere in the East has spread in many a wonderful way - see the Cheezburger Engrish entry for the translation of the Batman Returns video blurb. Much better than the actual films synopsis.
This is an amazing video ! it is much more meaningful and important than most of the the things people watch on youtube. I was not alive to witness events like this but i believe that they are still important, they are part of our culture something that affects us to this day.
To those who are wondering: Oppenheimer is quoting Bhagavat Gita, an ancient Hindu text and a part of Mahabharata, the biggest epic in the world. Gita is a highly spiritual & philosophical book of metaphoric nature where Arjuna, the warrior (Symbolized as common man) is expressing his dilemmas to Lord Krishna (Symbolized as our inner God/conscience) about what should be his actions in the Battle of Kurukhsetra (Symbolized as the battle of life). He who follows Gita becomes invincible to anxiety.
it is AWESOME seeing all the little youtube bitches and preteen cunts commenting on this.
NONE of you little cunts could begin to hold a candle to what any of these men went through, or did, or suffered through. little bitches who would cry like babies if their facebook accounts were deleted, whining about what real men did in one of the most violent wars in the history of this planet, when the very fate of the human race hung in the balance. it would be hysterical if it weren't so goddamn sad.
"Thank you for what you have done for us and the burden you carry for your discovery. Now let us share the weight of your discovery and act responsibly for the future of the human race. Your efforts are not to be feared or demonized, but praised for the courage it took to continue forward. Whether we persevere or destroy ourselves is in our hands and you should bear no guilt for what you have accomplished."
he looks really sad because he doomed the human race...and single handedly signed the death certificates for thousands of Japs not saying they didn't desirve it by god they.
The final piece of our first Nuclear weapons, beryllium for the initiator, was supplied by Father Michael DeLisle Lyons, S.J. (Jesuits) of Detroit. Yep . . . a priest. For this amazing story Google "WWJ, A Jesuit and the Bomb." Fr. Lyons was my great-uncle.Fr. Macelwane of St. Louis University was also involved in the Manhattan Project. The copy of the Baghvad Gita Dr. Oppenheimer read from in the bunker was given to him by Fr. Lyons, who got it from Mahatma Gandhi. Ironic?
USA did not originate the atom bomb technology. Germans developed it first and tested in January of 1945. Hitler decided it would tarnish the legacy of Third Reich so it was shelved. When the Americans fell upon Germany they uncovered the atomic facilities and gave the Germans lucrative contracts to construct the atom bombs which were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hitler never would have dropped atom bombs on human beings. German scientists also put man on the moon such as Werner Von Braun.
when you hear the quote said "i am become death. the destroyer of worlds" it sounds so angry, so powerful and egotistical. but from his mouth in this clip, its clear, its not from that angle that he thought of it. but from a place of deep fear and remorse
From what I read about the original context, Oppenheimer's quoting instead shows powerlessness and remorse, I think. The actions have been put in motion--God itself already chose the victims to burn in the nuclear fire and the Manhattan scientists were mere tools of this cruel destiny.
it's been established that militarily they were defeated they would have surrendered on the condition that they keep their emperor, but america wanted a ridiculous unconditional surrender for political purposes, and usually those kind of surrenders take drastic measures to secure...in this case it required targeting and blowing up civilians. Don't kid yourself that this was for "the greater" good, lol, it's all about power struggles and economics...
@warwize ............god, you're a fuckin idiot. Not only does your grammar and spelling mirror that of a ten year old, but your ability to continuously ram home an idea that you, not reality, has fabricated really takes the cake. I'm actually hoping that you respond to this so I can systematically tear you apart through means of verbal rape and sarcastic blows. How typical that you, being a person who could only wish for an extraordinary IQ, would inject the word "wize" into your name lol.
@NicotineStainedSoul Oppenheimer read that verse from the Mahabharata because he understood the terrible devastation that nukes had caused in the distant past as told by the Bhagavad Gita.
Germany was working on the materials for a nuclear bomb but was not in a rush for it and was sharing some information and materials with japan. The scientists wanted full control over the bombs so only they could allow them to be usesd as a last resort.
But at the same time, The Manhattan Project was started because Einstein had written FDR warning him of Nazi efforts to purify uranium-235, which could then be used to create an a-bomb.
Except we destroyed the Nazis long before they had even a vague shot at getting the bomb. Same goes for the Japanese and would have gone even if we didn't nuke their asses, seeing as how they were going to fucking surrender even before we nuked them.
I think he was more saddend about seeing what we humans had brought into this world. A theory is one thing, but its something else entirely to see that theory in practice.
to his credit .this film shows that old oppi was a sharper tack than his action( leading up to this ) showed him to be. at the least the man was remorseful for what he had unleashed.
we all make mistakes.but as humans some of us have the ablility to @#$%up really bad.
I love this quote, it actually got me to read the Bhagavad Gita, probably the wrong reason to read a holy book, but I get shivers when I hear him say those words, very foreboding.
I am not a racist, and you plainly are, but your stupidity is pissing me off, so lets go. Seeing as us white folk are the "spawn of Satan" why don't we just pull the plug on Africa? Cut the billions in aid we are giving and spend it on sports cars or whatever. Another thing if I were to say anything like the things you have I would almost certainly be villified for it but for some reason it's ok from some Black guy to sit around and spout biggoted bullshit about others sounds like equality to
The financial aid given to Africa is actually given to them on the condition that the country in question allows foreign corporations to rape the land out of it's natural resources. Also they demand the country to take an unreasonable debt that the country can't possibly ever pay back. The so called foreign aid is actually meant to recolonize Africa.
i don't agree anybody is the the spawn of satan, haha. However, you make it seem like people would be in hell if white people didn't exist. Yes it is true that if america cuts off aid people will die. But why don't we take that back a bit further? Lets say "what if we never invaded other countries and never took slaves?" What if America never exploited other human beings and other lands for their riches resources? What if companies and organizations didn't run the world.
I do agree with you, but I'm not going to feel guilty for things I had no control over, especially things that happned hundreds of years ago. And yes it would be great if the whole world would realise we're selling ourslves to multi-nationals. But exploiting their natural resources is the only way for Africa to become self-sufficient, at least in the short term. The trouble is the money goes to war lords and Despots and not the people.
Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein, MaoTseTung, Genghis Khan, Emperor Hirohito, the North-Corean Leaders Kim Yon Il.... , Ussama BenLadin and many others are not really white people.
Declaring white population responisble for everything evil is soime kind of racism..... . There are many white dumbassaes, but there are also many stupid black, yellow, red, green, blu and whatever - people.... .
The nuclear bomb assured both great good and great evil. By building the nuke, they essentially secured the safety of the free world for at least the next 65 years, but at the same time, they built a weapon that did great harm and is capable of doing even more harm.
Then there's Japan, where using the a-bomb saved millions of lives but at the same time killed many lives. I believe nuking japan was necessary, but the detestation the bombs caused is horrendous.
The nuclear bomb protected the "free" world at the expensive of the land, lives, and sovereignty of the thousands of natives relocated and destroyed by nuclear testing, nuclear mining, and continued through nuclear dumping. The nuclear bomb was the single worst invention in the history of man.
I was the worst invention yet for America's purposes, I don't think it's very disputable that it's good that we discovered it first as the Nazis and the Soviets would've discovered the nuke which would've been worse for the world.
At the point at which we still refuse to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, a treaty which Russia, Germany, Japan, and 145 other nations have ratified, we cannot claim any moral high ground. Nuclear hypocrites is what our nation. It is US, not Iran, that is preventing the rise of a nuclear free world.
Yes,and many of those nations became nuclear free because they were backed by the US and originally the other nations were backed by the USSR (up until 1989). Now I would agree that nukes can be horrible, but pacifism has only led to destruction and quite frankly,I'm not willing to accept pacifist ideology as a sufficient manner of accomplishing national defense. We have remained relatively peaceful on the home front since we built up our arsenal, and I personally have no regrets in hindsight.
that is intense stuff, How would it be to make a decision like that? knowing that you are the one holding millions of peoples lives in your hands. and either way you spoke your decision, lives would be lost. I don't think that i could have been able to make a choice like this man did. I'm not commending him I'm just saying that this man once held the world in his hand, knowing that part of it would not remain once he put it down.
if the radiance of a thousand suns were to suddenly burst into the air... it be like the radiance of the mighty one. I am become death the shatterer of worlds.
"There was tremendous excitement at Los Alamos. Everybody had parties, we all ran around....Bob Wilson, was just sitting there moping. I said, 'What are you moping about?' He said, 'It's a terrible thing that we made.'...You see, what happened to me-what happened to the rest of us-is we started for a good reason, then you're working very hard to accomplish something and it's a pleasure, it's excitement. And you stop thinking, you know; you just stop."
Einstein didn't work on the Manhattan Project, he wrote the letter to FDR in order to get the US involved in the project since he believed Germany to be doing the same thing.
He did work almost exclusively on the atomic bomb, but he was not the only one. Many people worked with him, Albert Einstein included.
he knew what he was making, but nobody had tested it on a major population center (for obvious reasons). So they didn't know just how extreme the losses would be if dropped in the middle of such a population center. When he heard about how many died, mostly civilians, he would have every right to be horrified.
Thats what he seems to explain here with an example from the Bhagavad Gita of a hindu God, Vishnu trying to explain to a prince that sometimes in life, one may have to do certain sinful things as part of his/her duty to PREVENT further evil.
Thats exactly the situation the US was in. Oppenheimer did not want the innocent to die, but healso knew that the losses would be atleast ten times more (given german+japan's remorseless killing spree) for both japan and america if the bomb wasn't made.
I understand conflict is a part of the human psyche, but in an advanced society as ours we shold not need to resort to war to resolve these conflicts. We are the most intelligent species on this planet but still we have not figured out a way to live in peace. I would glady live in a world without the advanced technology we have today knowing that mankind was not able to commit the atrocities that has been done throughout history. Saying this i know war has been one of the largest reasons to cre
Iamacompletejoke 2 weeks ago
@Iamacompletejoke bravo, unfortunately, your username devalues everything you just said
WeHateSand 1 week ago
@Iamacompletejoke Advanced and intelligent...are you kidding? Advanced, look to the natural world around you, it's all thousands of times more efficient and effective than what we create from it. Intelligent, MOST intelligent even, a vomit inducing notion to my ears. That very delusion is the foundation for our downfall. We have potential, but we refuse to acknowledge it because we tell ourselves such things. We deny understanding in exchange for the comfort of knowledge.
sparten180 4 days ago
He's quoting the Kindu Bible
rollerbladinginc 1 month ago
@rollerbladinginc Hindu
rollerbladinginc 1 month ago
Oh this is that dude from that Linkin Park song!
littleflutterby88 1 month ago
@littleflutterby88 yea. the guest vocalist =D
Shizoeid 2 weeks ago
@littleflutterby88 No. No no no no no. I reject every part of that. Never write about a brilliant physicist and your hideous music taste in the same sentence again.
archdukedunc 2 weeks ago
Of course he was sad. he was smart. He was probably scared shitless until the day he died.
SirWilliamMcL 1 month ago
What an Intelligent man!
jsmatos77 1 month ago
@jsmatos77 he kinda looks like patrick stewart
makutateridax200 1 month ago
What will be said at my graduation
Anihilist 1 month ago
From what interview was this?
mavs2147 1 month ago
The prince Oppenheimer is referring to is Arjuna, the Pandava prince. During the the Kurukshetra War, Arjuna was saddened that the opposing army consisted of many of his friends and family. Vishnu, in the form of his avatar Lord Krishna, explains to Arjuna why he should carry out his duty of fighting in battle. This correspondence between Krishna and Arjuna is what the Bhagavad Gita is based.
ElSickoFucko 2 months ago
Origin FTW!!
humanBBQcom 2 months ago
Oppenheimer can't into grammar. FAIL!
glun 3 months ago
@glun It's a direct quote from Bhagavad Gita - The unusual grammar is what I think makes it so powerful. Utterly chilling.
Kevo216666 3 months ago 2
@glun; Atleast he didn't fail in sentence construction..lol.
theeviltwi9 2 months ago
By the way it's not "Now I am become DEATH" but "Now I am become TIME"....
Western Indologists first translated it from Sanskrit as "Death" while for nearly Two and a Half Millenia, Hindus have been reading it as "Time".....
Set in the Mythological Story it has more sense as the Epic of the Mahabharatha is narrated by "Time" itself.....
Varoonmg 4 months ago
@Varoonmg There are various translations. Interesting you should say "Hindus have been reading it as -Time-" when Ramananda Prasad translates it, "I am death, the mighty destroyer of the world, out to destroy." There are always inconsistencies in translations. But you are right, there is a strong defense for it being "Time" and not "Death".
Zeraziel 1 month ago
he knew in that moment, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he had created a key that could open MANY doors; one of them leading to the destruction of mankind. how does one tell a God to "stop being sad".?
halfechilon 4 months ago
seems like he really got off on killing all those people
disclosurenow9 4 months ago
another manifestation of Siva in the form of destruction (Shiva), forming part of the creation (Brahma) and perservation (Vishnu) cycle or the hindu form of darwinism if you will...the real quote gives me goosebumps...enthusiasm?
"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"
krinoable 6 months ago
Oppenheimer's hope was that humanity's realization of its terrible power would be sufficient to engender the wisdom not to abuse it. Clearly, we have not seen that day yet, but I hold out hope that it is coming.
fennecfanatic 7 months ago
@fennecfanatic Wrong. Oppenheimers hope - like the hope of all Oppenheimers before and after him, and which mirror the hope of his fellow plutocratic coreligionists - is the hope for world domination.
redcorona14 5 months ago
@redcorona14 It's sad to see that despite all that the Jews suffered some still find a way to post unashamedly Anti Semite comments whenever they have the opportunity....
Pathetic
Varoonmg 4 months ago
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@Varoonmg Jews didnt suffer anything. They just made up a great story and used their insane wealth to buy up every media source which allowed them to sell such an outrageous lie.
Sorry, I have no sympathy for crocodile tears. Never forget - no Jews died in Gas chambers. It's all a lie.
redcorona14 4 months ago
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@redcorona14 ......are you fucking kidding me?
Doomfeeder 3 months ago
@Varoonmg
Oh shut the fuck up. Everyone's suffered at one point or another. Jewish suffering is overly emphasized in media and academia because there's so many Jews in media & academia. And in their world, they're the only ones that matter. To them, fuck the 20 million dead Russians...it's all about the Holocaust. Oy vey!
"The Jews desire to be the bride at every wedding, and the corpse at every funeral." After being kicked from so many countries, you gotta think maybe, just maybe, it's them.
jackiedegracia 2 months ago
@jackiedegracia and why could it be us? What have we done?
ZRN959 2 months ago
@jackiedegracia You do realize this quote is about him working on the team that created nuclear weapons don't you? He's expressing what could best be described as guilt.
engteach1985 1 month ago
@HiShutUpRok nvm sorry y'all
HiShutUpRok 8 months ago
can someone explain to me why "i AM become Death" is grammatically correct? shouldnt it be "i HAVE become"?
HiShutUpRok 8 months ago
@HiShutUpRok Because he saying he became the Destroyer, The End, Death. I am the Destroyer. I am become Death. This man. He wasn't a human. He cast out his humanity years before. And he told people that to do this unforgivable deed. He had to not be a human. But he saw the future. He wanted this. He wanted a world where humans wouldn't live everyday to kill one another. He did this, to save us in the end. To make sure that people know there is an end. So people try to prevent it from happening.
Ctboy679 7 months ago 2
One of the most chilling moments in human history.
JaxsinP 8 months ago 2
Lol @ the tags of this video
JohnWhitesideParsons 9 months ago 2
his eyes seem lifeless lol
ILoveHaji 9 months ago
@ILoveHaji You understand why, right? He was basically the "Father" of the atomic bomb. He helped develop a weapon that can wipe out a city in an instant, killing more than a hundred thousand people. He has that realization of what he has done, and it has changed him.
TheSeiifu 8 months ago
@TheSeiifu Did Oppenheimer really want to use the bomb against Germany and not Japan? Was his being Jewish a factor in that? Anyway, he and his friends helped put the future of the world perhaps in danger forever-may they rot in hell.
RPenta 4 months ago
@RPenta You sjould contextualise
The US used it against Japan because they thought that unless they did so, the War would go for years and years as the Japanese had to intention to give up
Otherwise, Einstein unwillingly triggerred the Manhattan Project in a letter to President Roosevelt where he didn't tell him to create the Bomb but underlined that Germany was on the verge of doing so
He later bitterly regreted it because after the War it was found that Germany was far from its objective...
Varoonmg 4 months ago
"I am become toaster, destroyer of bread... I suppose we all thought that, then." -- Knife
Tinkerton 9 months ago
We knew the world would not be the same. Few people laughed, 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.
FritzNeikenheim 9 months ago 7
Bhagwat Gita is the holy book frm where he took his lines an it's available at any big library
sydchd 10 months ago
I love Full Metal Jacket (if anyone understands that reference). I wish there was a place where i could buy this book
UrT1meSlipsAway 10 months ago
I am become Decade, the destroyer of worlds.
AsuranKnight 10 months ago
Linkin Park!
Markusroxx 10 months ago
trying to impress the prince,is he talking about the devil ?
3kdark 10 months ago
@3kdark No. He's quoting the Bhagavat Gita, which is Hindu scripture.
mulinlin7 10 months ago
The full quote is "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One. I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds". -- The Bagavad Gita
wmoore998 11 months ago 21
It's up to you to decide the subtext, but he's literally saying that men now have the destructive power of gods. YOU DON'T DO THAT. You just don't, I mean I'm not the most religious person but the point is we can very well destroy the world if we want to. It's so disturbing and horrifying and I think that's what he's trying to say.
SlaytonMarx 11 months ago
@SlaytonMarx He is not trying to sound arrogant at all. Quite the opposite, he is expressing the deepest sadness and regret for the world. He knew that he had created something powerful, even evil perhaps. By admitting his remorse and shame for his creation he has shown humility and bravery. He is to be shown your respect. Who are you to criticize this great man?
BrutalToad 11 months ago
@BrutalToad I am respecting him, my point is not that he was arrogant, quite the contrary, I was pointing out perhaps what he meant by his quote. That the action of creating the atom bomb gave terrible powers of destruction to mankind, whether or not it was a necessity of the war. He is acknowledging the implications of this in his quote and showing remorse with the fact that the world is now a much more dangerous place.
SlaytonMarx 11 months ago
@BrutalToad you are right man......
TheUndertakerSaysRIP 8 months ago
To people who don't understand Oppenheimer's statements and why he is quoting from the Bhagavad-Gita.
He is trying to say, he did it as a necessary duty in war.
Mahasiddha1 1 year ago 4
Jews usually have no remorse. To me it is all acting. What else have they created that are destroyers of worlds.... compound interest, fiat currency, ponzi schemes, specualtion, original sin with guilt and shame.... nuclear weapons were just there means to make sure they can keep being destroyers.
whitewarrior1964 1 year ago
@whitewarrior1964 Get the fuck over yourself.
CaptainTrilobyte 11 months ago
@whitewarrior1964 wow
microsoft4321 11 months ago
@whitewarrior1964 LOL, this men, is why you don't put internet into the kitchen.
MatsudairaTakuma 10 months ago
Je suis devenu la mort.
halfcabdisaster7 1 year ago
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.
hahaiamnotfunny 1 year ago 4
Along time ago me and my fellow bandmate came across this footage and were moved to create a piece of music to document the emotional distress Oppenheimer was under. The track turned out to be very dark and powerful, and we felt it did justice to what Oppenheimer is clearly crying about in his speech.
thecarnagevisors2006 1 year ago
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Four years after we presented it online it has recently emerges in a slightly altered form on a BIG band's major selling album. since learning of this my band has created a campaign video BUT since posting the video all we have recieved is abusive comments and ridicule. spare some time to check our video and see for yourselves. Thank you
thecarnagevisors2006 1 year ago
shouldnt it be "i have become death"
naitsirc23457 1 year ago
@naitsirc23457
It isn't modern western literature like we read. Things are phrased in different ways depending where/when you are.
Japanese honorifics that are still used are different from the west, being after the name instead of before.
GarethandSarah 1 year ago
and for Robert Oppenheimer - Linkin Park - The Radiance!
zigiz14 1 year ago 5
@zigiz14 linkin park are fucking pieces of shit
elvisman2000 1 year ago
Does he say we are all the victims of this Military_Industrial Gigantic Corporate system?
highmountainsman 1 year ago
wow thats crazy, i cant imagine all of the emotions he felt
ThaPython04 1 year ago 2
Yeah man, comic books and shit.
GroddGuerrilla 1 year ago
Clearly, the people who wrote the Bhagavat Gita were the same people who made the best goddamn games of all time, Zero Wing. Cookies if you understood the reference.
CrazyBeanBurrito 1 year ago
@CrazyBeanBurrito - that's ironic, you took ye-olde-English translations of the Aryan text and thought of Engrish, which is of course a Japanese phenomenon, that as markets opened elsewhere in the East has spread in many a wonderful way - see the Cheezburger Engrish entry for the translation of the Batman Returns video blurb. Much better than the actual films synopsis.
DracOverLordHaton 1 year ago
@CrazyBeanBurrito - I looked it up, & realised I did get the wrong Batman film title -
engrishfunny.failblog.org/tag/batman/
DracOverLordHaton 1 year ago
@CrazyBeanBurrito
"am become" is in fact grammatic, it's just an archaic use of "to be" as present perfective
terminaldeity 1 year ago 4
This is an amazing video ! it is much more meaningful and important than most of the the things people watch on youtube. I was not alive to witness events like this but i believe that they are still important, they are part of our culture something that affects us to this day.
younoher 1 year ago
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Roast in hell
MegaKimJongIl 1 year ago
The funny part is that some translations simply use "I am death destroyer of all." I guess we can save that for the first antimatter bomb.
zanotam 1 year ago
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Oh, if only if this wasn't a major grammar fail. :P
shinryu1284 1 year ago
^^grammer fail AND grammer knowledge fail
Malibustacie00 1 year ago
@Malibustacie00 You mean "grammar".
thebossnando 1 year ago 15
@thebossnando haha for sure...spelling fail
steele2244 11 months ago
To those who are wondering: Oppenheimer is quoting Bhagavat Gita, an ancient Hindu text and a part of Mahabharata, the biggest epic in the world. Gita is a highly spiritual & philosophical book of metaphoric nature where Arjuna, the warrior (Symbolized as common man) is expressing his dilemmas to Lord Krishna (Symbolized as our inner God/conscience) about what should be his actions in the Battle of Kurukhsetra (Symbolized as the battle of life). He who follows Gita becomes invincible to anxiety.
SeaofSongs 1 year ago 75
@SeaofSongs Intelligent comments have no place on youtube. Please have along hard look at yourself before commenting again.
MrVicist 7 months ago 2
@SeaofSongs I thought this was a misquote, and actual line in Bhagavat Gita was "I am become time, the destroyer of all".
Helltamirre 3 months ago
@SeaofSongs I learned this from Marko Ramius aboard the Red October some time ago. I forgot until just now, I slipped on my tea. Oops!
seans63lemansSD 2 months ago
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what the fuck is this shit? why is it on the new Linkin Park Album!?
SalvadorPalacios8 1 year ago
@SalvadorPalacios8 because its a concept album about nuclear war.
FischyPirate 1 year ago
HE WAS GERMAN
Makkerz 1 year ago
@Makkerz no he wasn't. He was an American physicist from Berkeley
hoff0320xz 1 year ago
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your spirit is fallen,satans food is fallen spirit.you are satan chow but nobody will inform you.read Christ get saved ,and believe no other humans.
mickwillie1 1 year ago
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it is AWESOME seeing all the little youtube bitches and preteen cunts commenting on this.
NONE of you little cunts could begin to hold a candle to what any of these men went through, or did, or suffered through. little bitches who would cry like babies if their facebook accounts were deleted, whining about what real men did in one of the most violent wars in the history of this planet, when the very fate of the human race hung in the balance. it would be hysterical if it weren't so goddamn sad.
bobbob01234567 1 year ago 66
I think Oppenheimer regretted every moment of the devolvement of the first atomic bomb. It’s an unpleasant and evil weapon.
EmpireLS56KW 1 year ago
@EmpireLS56KW UNPLEASANT ??? what the fuck is wrong with your brain ???
bobbob01234567 1 year ago
if u split the atom would u be happpy ignorant bastard
keefy99999 1 year ago
5***
cazyblood3 1 year ago
Why is his grammar bad? explain please :)
luni003 1 year ago
@luni003 He's quoting a line from Hindu scripture.
amara01addis 1 year ago
I wish I could have told Dr. Oppenheimer:
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"Thank you for what you have done for us and the burden you carry for your discovery. Now let us share the weight of your discovery and act responsibly for the future of the human race. Your efforts are not to be feared or demonized, but praised for the courage it took to continue forward. Whether we persevere or destroy ourselves is in our hands and you should bear no guilt for what you have accomplished."
onegemini77 1 year ago 7
poor guy looks like he is about to start baling
engelmohr2006 1 year ago
@engelmohr2006 ... he killed over 100,000,000 people... I wounder why hers about to start crying
luni003 1 year ago
he looks really sad because he doomed the human race...and single handedly signed the death certificates for thousands of Japs not saying they didn't desirve it by god they.
Redpet241 1 year ago
Look at the eyes. To have lived with this on his soul...
Auntkekebaby 1 year ago
LOL DEAD JAPS FOR THE LULZ
FollowMyDamnedLaws 1 year ago
The final piece of our first Nuclear weapons, beryllium for the initiator, was supplied by Father Michael DeLisle Lyons, S.J. (Jesuits) of Detroit. Yep . . . a priest. For this amazing story Google "WWJ, A Jesuit and the Bomb." Fr. Lyons was my great-uncle.Fr. Macelwane of St. Louis University was also involved in the Manhattan Project. The copy of the Baghvad Gita Dr. Oppenheimer read from in the bunker was given to him by Fr. Lyons, who got it from Mahatma Gandhi. Ironic?
usrevolution2 1 year ago
i am become death destroyer of worlds
600RR4Life 1 year ago
dirty pigs devil
MegaPamela77 1 year ago
thumbs up for the vuvuzela button!!!
uetzel 1 year ago
Xavier from X-Men....
X
Xaltus 1 year ago
Agonizing video. His name attached to the most destructive weapon known to man.
hufnmouth 1 year ago
USA did not originate the atom bomb technology. Germans developed it first and tested in January of 1945. Hitler decided it would tarnish the legacy of Third Reich so it was shelved. When the Americans fell upon Germany they uncovered the atomic facilities and gave the Germans lucrative contracts to construct the atom bombs which were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hitler never would have dropped atom bombs on human beings. German scientists also put man on the moon such as Werner Von Braun.
GranpaWaltonWasRed 1 year ago
I suppose we all thought that - that that that that that that that that indeed.
thatJACKAL 2 years ago
when you hear the quote said "i am become death. the destroyer of worlds" it sounds so angry, so powerful and egotistical. but from his mouth in this clip, its clear, its not from that angle that he thought of it. but from a place of deep fear and remorse
NicotineStainedSoul 2 years ago 109
From what I read about the original context, Oppenheimer's quoting instead shows powerlessness and remorse, I think. The actions have been put in motion--God itself already chose the victims to burn in the nuclear fire and the Manhattan scientists were mere tools of this cruel destiny.
It's just so sad. :(
sssssz 1 year ago
@NicotineStainedSoul
it's been established that militarily they were defeated they would have surrendered on the condition that they keep their emperor, but america wanted a ridiculous unconditional surrender for political purposes, and usually those kind of surrenders take drastic measures to secure...in this case it required targeting and blowing up civilians. Don't kid yourself that this was for "the greater" good, lol, it's all about power struggles and economics...
warwize 1 year ago
@warwize ............god, you're a fuckin idiot. Not only does your grammar and spelling mirror that of a ten year old, but your ability to continuously ram home an idea that you, not reality, has fabricated really takes the cake. I'm actually hoping that you respond to this so I can systematically tear you apart through means of verbal rape and sarcastic blows. How typical that you, being a person who could only wish for an extraordinary IQ, would inject the word "wize" into your name lol.
dabrush7 1 year ago
@NicotineStainedSoul Oppenheimer read that verse from the Mahabharata because he understood the terrible devastation that nukes had caused in the distant past as told by the Bhagavad Gita.
MujaRagHeadKillaUK 1 year ago
@MujaRagHeadKillaUK ummm wut distant past?
Metal4Truth 1 year ago
@MujaRagHeadKillaUK their were no nukes in the distant past we only developed them some 70 years ago
engelmohr2006 1 year ago
Germany was working on the materials for a nuclear bomb but was not in a rush for it and was sharing some information and materials with japan. The scientists wanted full control over the bombs so only they could allow them to be usesd as a last resort.
NielsShoe 2 years ago
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i wish he said it like:
I AM BECOME DEATH!!! I WILL RAPE YOUR CHILDREN WITH MY CHUCK NORRIS HORSE COCK
iansquared3 2 years ago
He really does seem remorseful.
But at the same time, The Manhattan Project was started because Einstein had written FDR warning him of Nazi efforts to purify uranium-235, which could then be used to create an a-bomb.
So it was either us or the nazis
yourlineofire 2 years ago
Also Japan was working on an atomic bomb.
wifoutteef 2 years ago
and getting some of their uranium from Germany. The Germans lost their capability in 1943 when their reactor "accindently" blew up
kespr916 1 year ago
Except we destroyed the Nazis long before they had even a vague shot at getting the bomb. Same goes for the Japanese and would have gone even if we didn't nuke their asses, seeing as how they were going to fucking surrender even before we nuked them.
jaquiel 2 years ago
I think he was more saddend about seeing what we humans had brought into this world. A theory is one thing, but its something else entirely to see that theory in practice.
lordcrapalot 2 years ago 7
to his credit .this film shows that old oppi was a sharper tack than his action( leading up to this ) showed him to be. at the least the man was remorseful for what he had unleashed.
we all make mistakes.but as humans some of us have the ablility to @#$%up really bad.
KNOW (the) LEDGE!
stankballz71 2 years ago 2
... hawt
nnero0 2 years ago
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MoodleVideo 2 years ago
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xxdiogenescynicxx 2 years ago
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fucken bitch lol
KingZig86 2 years ago
I love this quote, it actually got me to read the Bhagavad Gita, probably the wrong reason to read a holy book, but I get shivers when I hear him say those words, very foreboding.
xILLxChronic 2 years ago 5
wow i didnt know there was a video of that quote, you would have thought it would be a bit more iconic
sackattack 2 years ago
He wasn't gloating.. NOW I AM BECOME DEATH MUUUHAAHAAAAA!
the quote was ripe with remorse. think you may have envisioned this quote in a different context :)
ronnysoeberg 2 years ago 4
Jaya Prabhu!!!
narayanr 2 years ago
O.O *faint*
kull218 2 years ago
this friggin video is creepy.....especially with that skip shit at the end
Sospiro1209 2 years ago 4
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yea, half enlightened monkeys with nukes, scary
MrThefutureisnotset 2 years ago
yea that part is even scarier
Sospiro1209 2 years ago
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White ppl are to blame for all the problems in the world.
PeopleAllergy 2 years ago
I thought we were all descended from the same race?
Unpackthat 2 years ago
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No we do not. Whites are the spawn of Satan and they should be done away with.
PeopleAllergy 2 years ago
I am not a racist, and you plainly are, but your stupidity is pissing me off, so lets go. Seeing as us white folk are the "spawn of Satan" why don't we just pull the plug on Africa? Cut the billions in aid we are giving and spend it on sports cars or whatever. Another thing if I were to say anything like the things you have I would almost certainly be villified for it but for some reason it's ok from some Black guy to sit around and spout biggoted bullshit about others sounds like equality to
Unpackthat 2 years ago 5
The financial aid given to Africa is actually given to them on the condition that the country in question allows foreign corporations to rape the land out of it's natural resources. Also they demand the country to take an unreasonable debt that the country can't possibly ever pay back. The so called foreign aid is actually meant to recolonize Africa.
PeopleAllergy 2 years ago
i don't agree anybody is the the spawn of satan, haha. However, you make it seem like people would be in hell if white people didn't exist. Yes it is true that if america cuts off aid people will die. But why don't we take that back a bit further? Lets say "what if we never invaded other countries and never took slaves?" What if America never exploited other human beings and other lands for their riches resources? What if companies and organizations didn't run the world.
harrybarry 2 years ago 4
I do agree with you, but I'm not going to feel guilty for things I had no control over, especially things that happned hundreds of years ago. And yes it would be great if the whole world would realise we're selling ourslves to multi-nationals. But exploiting their natural resources is the only way for Africa to become self-sufficient, at least in the short term. The trouble is the money goes to war lords and Despots and not the people.
Unpackthat 2 years ago
the we would not be america. our past is covered in blood. but that is who we are. rome reborn.
aaronjackzuck 2 years ago
Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein, MaoTseTung, Genghis Khan, Emperor Hirohito, the North-Corean Leaders Kim Yon Il.... , Ussama BenLadin and many others are not really white people.
Declaring white population responisble for everything evil is soime kind of racism..... . There are many white dumbassaes, but there are also many stupid black, yellow, red, green, blu and whatever - people.... .
Racism is stupid
artiranmor 2 years ago 4
just keep telling yourself that buddy
DrumsRbomb 2 years ago
he looks sad cuz he realized that he help create a weapon that could kill more people than ever imagined.
junkers1337 2 years ago
Yes he does. I feel bad for him in a way. He was trying to develope a way to end WWII but ended up giving mankind the ability to destroy itself.
oosaf 2 years ago 3
ill bet he was a real drag at office partys at Xmas hu?
timeclock200 2 years ago
Yeah a real "Debbie Domner"...lol
ZIPPTPH77 2 years ago
Debbie Downer".....
ZIPPTPH77 2 years ago
The nuclear bomb assured both great good and great evil. By building the nuke, they essentially secured the safety of the free world for at least the next 65 years, but at the same time, they built a weapon that did great harm and is capable of doing even more harm.
Then there's Japan, where using the a-bomb saved millions of lives but at the same time killed many lives. I believe nuking japan was necessary, but the detestation the bombs caused is horrendous.
ovensleeper 2 years ago
@ovensleeper
The nuclear bomb protected the "free" world at the expensive of the land, lives, and sovereignty of the thousands of natives relocated and destroyed by nuclear testing, nuclear mining, and continued through nuclear dumping. The nuclear bomb was the single worst invention in the history of man.
CallMeGoat 2 years ago
I was the worst invention yet for America's purposes, I don't think it's very disputable that it's good that we discovered it first as the Nazis and the Soviets would've discovered the nuke which would've been worse for the world.
ovensleeper 2 years ago
At the point at which we still refuse to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, a treaty which Russia, Germany, Japan, and 145 other nations have ratified, we cannot claim any moral high ground. Nuclear hypocrites is what our nation. It is US, not Iran, that is preventing the rise of a nuclear free world.
CallMeGoat 2 years ago
Yes,and many of those nations became nuclear free because they were backed by the US and originally the other nations were backed by the USSR (up until 1989). Now I would agree that nukes can be horrible, but pacifism has only led to destruction and quite frankly,I'm not willing to accept pacifist ideology as a sufficient manner of accomplishing national defense. We have remained relatively peaceful on the home front since we built up our arsenal, and I personally have no regrets in hindsight.
ovensleeper 2 years ago
hey dumbasses they were meant to be used on germany
trfootball48 2 years ago
Now who's being naive, Kay? Sure, take what the military says at face value....
rtydhg9q 2 years ago
Germany was already defeated when the bomb was ready, and the entire country was in ruins. Bombing Germany wouldn't have helped 1 bit
notToast 2 years ago
that is intense stuff, How would it be to make a decision like that? knowing that you are the one holding millions of peoples lives in your hands. and either way you spoke your decision, lives would be lost. I don't think that i could have been able to make a choice like this man did. I'm not commending him I'm just saying that this man once held the world in his hand, knowing that part of it would not remain once he put it down.
truinfini 2 years ago 2
It sickens me how mercilessly judgemental people are of a fifty-five second clip of this man's life.
iknowzippo 2 years ago
if the radiance of a thousand suns were to suddenly burst into the air... it be like the radiance of the mighty one. I am become death the shatterer of worlds.
gir553 3 years ago
0:47
thomas1851992 3 years ago
"There was tremendous excitement at Los Alamos. Everybody had parties, we all ran around....Bob Wilson, was just sitting there moping. I said, 'What are you moping about?' He said, 'It's a terrible thing that we made.'...You see, what happened to me-what happened to the rest of us-is we started for a good reason, then you're working very hard to accomplish something and it's a pleasure, it's excitement. And you stop thinking, you know; you just stop."
Richard Feynman
15donel15 3 years ago
He quotes from the Bhagavadgita like a Beatle.
ludachris475 3 years ago 3
Look how he bathes their souls in the Vedic Brahminical fire of the gods.
ludachris475 3 years ago
Damn, I did not realize Mr Clean™ could be so cruel.
ludachris475 3 years ago
TheLogicJunkie, you sound like TheIdiotJunkie
robi2000 3 years ago
Einstein didn't work on the Manhattan Project, he wrote the letter to FDR in order to get the US involved in the project since he believed Germany to be doing the same thing.
He didn't even think it was physically possible.
15donel15 3 years ago
He was right, Germany was. they just didnt have the amount of resources and manpower that we did, especially land mass!
Apostate101 3 years ago
He did work almost exclusively on the atomic bomb, but he was not the only one. Many people worked with him, Albert Einstein included.
he knew what he was making, but nobody had tested it on a major population center (for obvious reasons). So they didn't know just how extreme the losses would be if dropped in the middle of such a population center. When he heard about how many died, mostly civilians, he would have every right to be horrified.
HarbingersMark 3 years ago 2
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Oppenheimer work specifically on the Atomic Bomb project? Wasn't it entirely his baby?
I mean, the guy knew he was developing the atom bomb... Who the fuck does he think he's kidding with his "remorse" schtick in this video?
TheLogicJunkie 3 years ago
Thats what he seems to explain here with an example from the Bhagavad Gita of a hindu God, Vishnu trying to explain to a prince that sometimes in life, one may have to do certain sinful things as part of his/her duty to PREVENT further evil.
Thats exactly the situation the US was in. Oppenheimer did not want the innocent to die, but healso knew that the losses would be atleast ten times more (given german+japan's remorseless killing spree) for both japan and america if the bomb wasn't made.
binoyrakesh 3 years ago
Possibly.
TheLogicJunkie 3 years ago