Abstract
On 16 July 1945, American scientists produced the first nuclear explosion in history, the “Trinity” test, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Los Alamos laboratory that built the bomb, upon observing this terrifying explosion, was moved to quote from the Bhagavad-Gita, the Hindu holy poem: “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” A few weeks later, the U.S. exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki the only nuclear bombs ever used in war. The entire central regions of both cities were utterly destroyed.
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Jagger, J. (1991). Nuclear Confrontation. In: The Nuclear Lion. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2784-2_17
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