His mission was to lead the scientific effort to devise the ultimate weapon of war - the atomic bomb. American theoretical physicist Dr Robert Oppenheimer was in charge of the top-secret $2-billion Manhattan Engineer District. If WW1 was the chemist’s war, WW2 became a physicist’s war. America needed to ensure victory and end WW2 faster, saving lives. The threat of the Third Reich dominating Europe was real. The Japanese forces had humbled the nation after bombing Pearl Harbour on 9 December 1941. ![]() On a cloudless morning in late 1943, a blue-eyed six-feet tall man with close-cropped hair wearing a big-brimmed brown porkpie hat stood somewhere in the middle of Los Alamos in New Mexico, United States, chain-smoking cigarettes and reciting passages from the Bhagavad Gita.
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