Great Regulars: The Atomic Age began on a stretch

of desert in Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA, on 16 July 1945. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific director of the project that developed the atomic bomb recalled the lines from the Hindu Bhagavad Gita where Kishna says "I am become Death, the shatter of Worlds."

Less than a month later on 6 August, the device was used in reality in Hiroshima and three days later, another model on Nagasaki.

from René Wadlow's The Flutes of Dionysus: Newropeans Magazine: 6 August 1945--65 Years of a Shattered World

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