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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

J. Robert Oppenheimer
Death, Military, Hiroshima And Nagasaki
Onthe detonationof the first atomicbomb,16 Jul1945.Quoted in Len Giovanitti and Fred FreedThe Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965).
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.