Robert Oppenheimer (April 22 ... that would be like the splendor of the mighty one." and "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." After the war Oppenheimer was a chief advisor to the ...

Robert Oppenheimer. As the director of the Manhattan ... Oppenheimer's famously quoting the Bhagavad Gita, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." It's eerily silent.

Robert Oppenheimer's name has become almost synonymous with the atomic bomb, and also with the dilemma facing scientists when the interests of the nation and their own conscience collide.