Early on the morning of July 16, 1945, hidden away in a lonesome southern New Mexico desert, years of theoretical exercises and hypothetical questions culminated in a blinding, explosive reality. The detonation of the world’s first nuclear device was both awe-inspiring and fear-inducing. It marked a peak of humanity’s scientific achievement, but also forever redefined humanity’s destructive abilities. Robert Oppenheimer famously captured the moment by quoting Vishnu in the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
On October 4, 2016 in a raucous Oracle Arena, the Warriors conducted a test of their own super weapon.