"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

J. Robert Oppenheimer, American Physicist

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"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."

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"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."