Oppenheimer didn't say anything memorable at the time, he said in a later interview that he thought of that passage in the Bhagavad Gita, which totally means he read the passage sometime after the test and thought that would have been a cool thing to say right after.
The most memorable quote from that day was Bainbridge who said to Oppenheimer "Now we are all sons of bitches". Like I don't doubt the Trinity test really did bring home to all these university professors and swagless nerds that they had unleased a horrible new evil onto the world.
Really the only thing they could have done to redeem themselves was to tell the Soviets how to build the bomb, which granted like a third of them were already doing but that's beside the point.
Oppenheimer didn't say anything memorable at the time, he said in a later interview that he thought of that passage in the Bhagavad Gita, which totally means he read the passage sometime after the test and thought that would have been a cool thing to say right after.
The most memorable quote from that day was Bainbridge who said to Oppenheimer "Now we are all sons of bitches". Like I don't doubt the Trinity test really did bring home to all these university professors and swagless nerds that they had unleased a horrible new evil onto the world.
Really the only thing they could have done to redeem themselves was to tell the Soviets how to build the bomb, which granted like a third of them were already doing but that's beside the point.