The group watched as a mushroom cloud climbed to a height of over ten thousand feet. Farrell approached Groves and said to his boss, “The war is over.” Oppenheimer himself later recalled the moment. “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 . . . ‘Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.’”
