J. Robert Oppenheimer

Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting a passage in the Bhagavad-Gita, in the documentary The Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965), characterizing his thoughts upon the successful detonation of the first atomic bomb. Christopher Nolan’s drama Oppenheimer (2023) is in first-release theatrical competition with the fantasy-comedy Barbie (2023) this month.