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Re: Robert Openheimer



Jessica,
This is a good one.  Almost every book on Oppenheimer quotes this "quote" but no one really references the source.  It has become circular; one author cites another who uses the quote but in turn gives no source.  However, the filmed source of Oppenheimer making a version of the quote (which all others may have been taken from) was probably the interview he did with Edward R. Murrow on the latter's series "See It Now" which was shown on American television in January 1955.  Sorry, I don't remember which network Murrow was on but I'm certain this footage is in someone's archives.  Dick King, University of Arizona

Jessica Berman-Bogdan wrote:

I am trying to track down the footage of  Robert Oppenheimer making the following statement.  I know this was included in the CNN Millennium Show. Here's the quote: "We knew the world would not be same.  A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.  I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture the Bagavad Gita. Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.I suppose we all thought that one way or another."