“Those are not my words. In fact, I had to look up the exact quote. Like everyone else, I only knew ‘I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ We tend to romanticize good quotes, and I always imagined Oppenheimer uttering those words while staring at the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion. In reality, he spoke those words during an interview for an NBC documentary in 1965. He had had twenty years to think about it.”

“Those are not my words. In fact, I had to look up the exact quote. Like everyone else, I only knew ‘I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ We tend to romanticize good quotes, and I always imagined Oppenheimer uttering those words while staring at the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion. In reality, he spoke those words during an interview for an NBC documentary in 1965. He had had twenty years to think about it.”

— Sylvain Neuvel