Being known as the father of the atomic bomb is quite a heavy thing, but that's how legendary physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer has been branded by history. His whole life story is much more complex, however.
Oppenheimer was the lead scientist for the U.S. government's top secret Manhattan Project, which designed and developed the atomic bomb at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory. The effort led to the world's first human-made nuclear detonation on July 16, 1945.
