Nehru offered Oppenheimer, the inventor of the atomic bomb, Indian citizenship. His Reply was this

After the renowned American scientist Julius Robert Oppenheimer was rejected by his own nation in 1954, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru gave him Indian citizenship. Oppenheimer is popularly recognized as the father of the atomic bomb.

In light of the much anticipated film “Oppenheimer,” the part of the renowned American scientist has once again attracted a lot of attention. The movie, which was directed by British-American director Christopher Edward Nolan, is based on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, which was co-written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.

Oppenheimer ardently supported anti-war ideas and nuclear restraint after playing a crucial part in the “Manhattan Project” that created the first atomic bomb, which was launched on Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

He said that the main tenets of the American defense strategy at the time were “ignorance and follies.” During the Cold War, he clashed with the US elite because of his vocal statements opposing nuclear weapons.

Pandit Nehru, the country’s first prime minister, extended Oppenheimer an offer of citizenship in 1954. However, according to “American Prometheus” author Kai Bird, the patriotic American scientist chose not to take the offer into consideration.

“After being humiliated in 1954, Oppenheimer…He was invited by Nehru to settle in India and become a citizen.However, since Oppenheimer had a strong sense of American patriotism, I don’t believe he took the offer seriously, Bird told Hindustan Times (HT) in an interview.

Once hailed as the greatest scientist in America, Robert Oppenheimer was controversially convicted in what he termed a “terrible kangaroo court,” where the chief judge followed the prosecutor’s lead.

Oppenheimer’s persistent urge to pose difficult concerns regarding nuclear weapons at the outset of the Cold War in the late 1940s, when US-Soviet relations worsened, caused Washington’s national security strategy tremendous concern.

Oppenheimer feared the advent of fascism during the Second World War and thought the atomic weapon was required to stop Hitler from acquiring such power. He was conflicted about the bombs in Japan that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians after Germany was defeated.

He is renowned in India for reading verses from the Bhagavad-Gita on July 16, 1945, the day of the initial nuclear test. Soon after the highly classified test was completed, he recited: “Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of the Worlds.”

Oppenheimer attempted to publicly warn his countrymen of the hazards after the United States had triumphed in the Second World War in order to reduce the country’s dependence on nuclear weapons. The episode that characterized his life and provided the basis for Nolan’s Hollywood blockbuster was when the US government questioned his allegiance and had him put on trial.