Oppenheimer — United States
J. Robert Oppenheimer leads the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos — assembling the world's greatest scientific minds to build the weapon that will end the war and reshape human civilisation.
Los Alamos Laboratory (Site Y) was established in January 1943 under J. Robert Oppenheimer. At its peak it employed over 6,000 people in the remote New Mexico desert. The Trinity test on 16 July 1945 was the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. Oppenheimer, watching the fireball, recalled the Bhagavad Gita: 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'