On July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 AM, a light "brighter than a thousand suns," filled the valley known as
Jornada del Muerto, the Journey of Death. As the now familiar mushroom cloud rose into the sky,
Oppenheimer recalled the following line from the
Bhagavad-Gita:
"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
Modern hydrogen bombs are typically one-thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb tested at
Trinity, and thousands of such bombs exist.
