词汇 | it worked |
词源 | It worked; I am become death. Physicist Robert Oppenhe- imer recalled that after he and his brother watched the explo- sion of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos on July 16, 1945, he “remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhaga- vad Gita: ‘I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.’ ” How- ever, according to Greg Herken’s Brotherhood of the Bomb (2001), Oppenheimer’s brother says these words came some time after the fact. What Oppenheimer really said at the mo- ment was, “It worked!” |
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