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[AngieM]

Don't blame poor Oppenheimer, he got a bum rap. The quote is from a Hindu guy named Vishnu and probably poorly translated.
Quote from his biograhy ......
In an interview shortly before his death in 1967 Oppenheimer spoke with philosophic melancholy of his first gut reaction to the atomic bomb. Besides the science, the math imagery, and satisfaction that the 1945 device had really worked as his team of scientists and military liaisons had struggled so long for, Oppenheimer also recalled the words of the Hindu god Vishnu as that god was trying to compel an earthly leader to follow his dictates. To intimidate the human,Vishnu re-formed himself into the visage of a huge multi-armed writhing figure, enormously immense beyond the scale of simple human proportions. "Now I am become Death", he told the human, "destroyer of worlds.".

[SoftParade]

OT

I did a double take on that myself.
Adds to the poetic license .