Dr Robert Oppenheimer, scientific Director of the Manhattan Project, with General Leslie Groves, US Army Corps of Engineers, standing over the fragmentary remains of the support tower at "Trinity" nuclear test ground zero.  Best regards, JR.

After "Trinity".

16 July, 1945 - the Manhattan Project ushers Humanity across the Rubicon, with the first atmospheric test of a nuclear weapon - the implosive/explosive plutonium device known as the "Gadget".  Within a month, the fruits of "Manhattan" would be falling on Japan.

The Director of the Manhattan Project, Dr Robert Oppenheimer, was moved to recall a quote from the Bhagavad-Gita, where Shiva says - 

"If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky,
That would be like the splendour of the Mighty One.
I am become Death,
The Shatterer of Worlds."

He perhaps would have done well to recall a quote from Shakespeare's "Macbeth" - "What's done is done - it  cannot be undone ...".  In sadness, JR.

"Oh Brave New World ..."

The test nuclear device, "Gadget", in preparation for the "Trinity" nuclear test, July 1945.  Best regarsds, JR.