The Real Story Of Oppenheimer : 16th July 1945, around 5.30 in the morning. In the desert of America’s state New Mexico, a bomb explodes. But this is not a normal bomb explosion. This was the first time a nuclear bomb was being tested. This nuclear test was codenamed Trinity and the project was led by scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer was shocked to see this bomb blast.
He had expected the size of the explosion to be around 0.3 kilotons of TNT. But in reality, this blast was 50 times more dangerous. 15-20 kilotons of TNT. The blast released so much heat that a steel tower evaporated. The shockwave was felt from a distance of 160 km. The mushroom cloud that erupted went up to 12 km in the sky. Upon seeing all this, Oppenheimer was so shocked that he uttered a line from the Bhagavad Gita.
“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
You might be asking; how did Oppenheimer know about Bhagavad Gita? We will talk about that later in the article. What was his story? How did he develop the nuclear bomb? Was Oppenheimer a hero or a villain? And how did he feel when millions of people lost their lives because of his creation?
