J. Robert Oppenheimer watched the first atom bomb explode and thought, "Now I am become Death." The famous quote is not an Oppenheimer original. The god Vishnu says it in Hindu scripture.

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." This haunting line from the Bhagavad Gita, recited by J. Robert Oppenheimer upon the successful testing of the atomic bomb, encapsulates the ...