Father of the A-bomb

"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one ... Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Manhattan Project director J. Robert Oppenheimer recalled those words from the Hindu Bhagavad Gita scriptures as he watched the detonation of the first atomic bomb in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Oppenheimer died this day in 1967 at age 62.