American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) lived in America.
Why did J. Robert Oppenheimer create the atomic bomb?
Oppenheimer oversaw the research and development of an atomic weapon while serving as the head of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project. As the “father of the atomic bomb,” he is well-known.
Oppenheimer was appalled by the collapse of France in 1940, and after the United States entered the war, he felt compelled to help with the military effort.
Oppenheimer argued that supporting the war effort was necessary to save Western civilisation as a whole, not only as a matter of patriotism.
How did J. Robert Oppenheimer feel about the atomic bomb?
The crowd went crazy when Oppenheimer said that his only regret was not creating the bomb in time to use it against the Germans.
Why did J. Robert Oppenheimer say I am become death?
On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was successfully detonated in New Mexico during the Trinity test, which Oppenheimer was one of the observers of.
Later, he commented that the explosion reminded him of the Bhagavad Gita’s words: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
