'Big enough?': What 'father of atomic bomb' was asked. And what Nehru later did

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru offered Julius Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, Indian citizenship after the latter’s humiliation in 1954 over statements against nuclear weapons, the co-author of the book that inspired Christopher Nolan’s movie on the American quantum physicist has said. Bird said nine years after being celebrated as America’s greatest scientist, Oppenheimer was brought down in “a terrible kangaroo court” and stripped of his security clearance in a virtual security hearing. And that spring, some of the physicists and scientists.held an impromptu meeting to discuss the future of the gadget, and to ask why are we working so hard to build this terrible weapon of mass destruction when we know the Germans are defeated and Hitler is dead, and the Japanese can’t possibly have a bomb project?” Bird said Oppenheimer reminded them the war was not over. “And he got Arthur Ryder, the only Sanskrit scholar at Berkeley University, to tutor him in Sanskrit so that he could read the Gita in the original.” Read Here | ChatGPT's Altman disappointed with Oppenheimer movie: ‘missed the mark’; Elon Musk agrees Bird said Oppenheimer developed an interest in Gita due to a fascination with mysticism and some of the philosophical notions in it that were sort of parallel to quantum about the nature of the world. He is a quantum physicist, so he is trying to understand time and space, and these are issues that the Gita sort of addresses on some level.” Bird said Oppenheimer’s story is incredibly relevant because the world is still trying to live with the bomb.