Purely History on Instagram: "On July 16, 1945, when Robert Oppenheimer and his team witnessed the first successful detonation of an atomic bomb at the Trinity test site in New Mexico, he was struck by the terrifying power of what they had created. As the blinding flash and thunderous shockwave filled the desert, Oppenheimer later said that a line from the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita came to his mind: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” In later interviews, he explained that the