Day: July 19, 2023

Day after tomorrow, 21st July, will be the premier of the biopic Oppenheimer. I looking forward to watching the movie at an IMAX GT theater in Austin TX sometime in the next couple of weeks. I’ve always been fascinated by J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Part of my fascination was due to his deep knowledge of and interest in Hinduism. In a TV interview, when asked what his reaction was when he witnessed the test (in New Mexico, code named Trinity) of the atom bomb he had helped in creating, he said that he had recalled lines from the Bhagavad Gita — “I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.” Continue reading “Oppenheimer”