Where does that quote " I am becomes death " come from?

Answer 1

J Robert Oppenheimer, a person who worked on the atomic bomb (The Manhattan project) made that comment after it was detonated at the Trinity test site.

"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that one way or another."

Answer 2

Hindu scripture the Bhagavadad Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form, and says, "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

Robert Oppenheimer the director of the labratory in Los Alamos, quoted it after they detonated the first nuclear bomb.