Things to ponder department:

Courtesy of The Writer’s Almanac on the anniversary of the first atomic bomb testing:

J. Robert Oppenheimer was the physicist who led the Manhattan Project, which created the atomic weapon. Years later, he said that what came to his mind as he witnessed the explosion were these words from the sacred Hindu text The Bhagavad Gita:

If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst into the sky
That would be like
The splendor of the Mighty One …
I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds.

But there at the desert on that day he murmured only the words “It worked.”