If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One. I am become Death,
the Destroyer of Worlds. [Quoting the sacred Hindu epic "The Bhagavad Gita", at the first nuclear explosion, Alamogordo, New Mexico, July 16,
1945. Sometimes he is quoted as saying "... the Shatterer of Worlds."]