Some of the scientists working on the Manhattan Project were certainly aware of associations with mythological themes. > Oppenheimer later recalled that, while

Some of the scientists working on the Manhattan Project were certainly aware of associations with mythological themes. > Oppenheimer later recalled that, while witnessing the explosion, he thought of a verse from the Hindu holy book, the Bhagavad Gita: > "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one." I'm fond of mythopoetic perspectives on technology, to find parallels in texts from the antiquities or the Renaissance. From their point of view, we in the modern world must seem to live like magicians, communicating over vast distances, peering into our "looking glass".