"""I am become Death, the shatterer of Worlds."" This quote from the Hindu treatise Bhagavad Gita was famously used at what 1945 event?"
Harold F. Cherniss atomic bomb was exploded in the Trinity Test, Oppenheimer was famously supposed to have quoted a saying from the Bhagavad-Gita: 'Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.' Oppenheimer had studied Sanskrit at Berkeley and it was Cherniss who introduced Oppenheimer to his Sanskrit teacher, Arthur W. Ryder. Oppenheimer later claimed to have said those words but there is no contemporary evidence. In 1945, after Hiroshima and Nagasaki when Oppenheimer had become one of the world's most famous scientists, Cherniss saw him at Berkeley. In 1947, Oppenheimer accepted an offer to take up the directorship of the Institute for
I Am Become Death I Am Become Death "I Am Become Death" is the fourth episode of the third season of the NBC science fiction drama series "Heroes" and thirty-eighth episode overall. It was written by Aron Coleite and directed by David Von Ancken. The episode aired on October 6, 2008. The title is a reference to a phrase from the "Bhagavad Gita" and was famously quoted by J. Robert Oppenheimer; "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Peter travels four years into the future with his future self, in order to learn what he can. To the horror of both Peters,