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The Ultimate Weapon
| The Mahabharata tells of a vast,
cataclysmic battle, in which the Ultimate Weapon (Pasupata) is summoned, a weapon that if
used will destroy the world of both matter and spirit. This Website contains
information about living in times of calamity when civilizations continue to build and
warriors still debate deployment of the Ultimate Weapon. At dawn on July 16, 1945, Robert Oppenheimer watched the first atomic bomb explode in the New Mexico desert. "I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita," he later said. "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." |
The Center for the Evolution of Democracy: "Ultimately, however, the problem of violence in the presence of an absolute weapon that can destroy the world and which can never be disposed of--as identified in the ancient Sanskrit poem called the Mahabharata--can only be solved when our world crosses the threshold to a fully implemented global democracy that guarantees both security and democratic participation to every people." Children of the Manhattan Project: In a sense, we are all are children of the Manhattan Project. The project's final product, the atomic bomb, changed everything for all of us for all time. "We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world," President Harry Truman wrote. Project director Robert Oppenheimer, when the first blinding explosion lit up the New Mexico desert sky in 1945, recalled thinking of a line from the Bhagavad-Gita" "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Gita in the Atomic Age: Back to the Future. An article by Nyay Bushan, editor of Connect Magazine ("India's Voice in the Global Village"), to introduce the June 1998 issue reprinting e xcerpts from a manuscript by the late Ved Prakash Sharma (BA Hons, MA Eng, BT) from 15th November 1964. |
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