Kali and Her Cult of Thugs

"Now I am Become Death, The Destroyer of Worlds." 

"We Came.

We Saw.

He Died."

"The charges in the indictment that the defendants planned and waged aggressive war are charges of the utmost gravity.

War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world.

To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” 

- Chief Justice Robert H. Jackson, 

Nuremberg, 1946

" We knew The World would not be the same. 

A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. 

I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; 

Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 

"Now I am Become Death, The Destroyer of Worlds." 

Oppenheimer is quoting from the 1944 Prabhavananda and Isherwood translation of the Bhagavad Gita. 

The line quoted is spoken by Krishna, one of the major avatars of Vishnu; some assert that the passage would be better translated :

"I am Become Time, The Destroyer of Worlds."