Oppenheimer Born: Father of the Atomic Bomb
Oppenheimer watched the first atomic bomb test in the New Mexico desert in July 1945 and thought of a line from the Bhagavad Gita: 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' Three weeks later, two bombs fell on Japan. Seven years after that, the U.S. government stripped him of his security clearance, accusing him of Communist sympathies. He never got it back. Born April 22, 1904, in New York City. Died 1967, of throat cancer.
April 22, 1904
122 years ago
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