‘Now I have become death, the destroyer of the worlds’ — Harvard Gazette

‘Now I have become death, the destroyer of the worlds’ — Harvard Gazette

Nation & World ‘Now I have become death, the destroyer of the worlds’ Oral history offers kaleidoscopic view of angst and relief, hope and dread at test of atomic bomb 80 years ago   September 10, 2025 long read Excerpted from “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb” by Garrett M. Graff ’03. Wisconsin physicist Joseph O. Hirschfelder: It was time …