No comments J. Robert Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer: ‘Now I am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds’ By Witnify • April 18, 2014 Uncategorized Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer remembers what happened after the first successful test of an artificial nuclear explosion on July 16, 1945 in New Mexico and repeats his famous quoting of the ‘Bhagavad Gita’ for the camera.