You are currently viewing Two Days Before Trinity: Oppenheimer’s Contemplation on Good Deeds

Two Days Before Trinity: Oppenheimer’s Contemplation on Good Deeds

Two days before the Trinity test, using a quotation from Bhartrhari’s Satakatraya, J. Robert Oppenheimer offered his thoughts on the matter:

In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains,
On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows,
In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame,
The good deeds a man has done before defend him.