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Doctor Julius Robert Oppenheimer, professor of physics at U.C. Berkeley and scientific director of the 'Manhattan Project', said in a television interview in 1965 (about 20 years after the first atomic bomb test explosion on July 16, 1945, called "Trinity") that the explosion reminded him of a verse in the Hindu scripture Bhagavad-Gita, which he quoted as:

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

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