Pure history on Instagram: "After witnessing the first successful test of an atomic bomb on July 16, 1945, during the Trinity test in New Mexico, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer who led the Manhattan Project was both awed and deeply shaken by the scale of destruction the weapon represented. In later interviews, he famously recalled a verse from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” This quote reflected the immense moral and emotional weight he