who is known as the father of atom bomb
Julius Robert Oppenheimer, who is famously known as the father of the atomic bomb.
The role of the famous American scientist has again become the subject of great interest in light of the highly-anticipated movie “Oppenheimer.
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1954 after the famed American physicist was shunned by his own country.
After playing a pivotal role in the “Manhattan Project” that developed the world’s first atomic bomb, which was dropped in Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
He believed that fundamental assumptions of the United States defence policy at the time were laced with “ignorance and follies.
Due to public rhetoric against nuclear weapons, he came at odds with the US establishment of the time during the Cold War era.