The angst of ‘Oppenheimer’ resonates with me. My dad sacrificed for the atomic bomb too.

“K-25,” the gaseous diffusion plant at Oak Ridge. (Sun-Times file)

When I was 2, my parents and I moved from Chicago to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where plutonium for the atomic bomb was developed from 1942 to 1945.

The land, from which farm families were displaced with two weeks’ notice, initially was as empty as Los Alamos back then, an unlikely place for a major government project, but perfect for a secret project.