Robert oppenheimer

The photographer’s account of coming face-to-face with one of the most influential physicists and so-called “father of the atomic bomb”

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Although no great beauty, Kitty Harrison, it was no surprise when she caught the eye of a pioneering physicist called J. Robert Oppenheimer at a garden party in Pasadena, California in 1939.

Robert Oppenheimer father of the Atomic Bomb

Lack of effective regulation means the risk of nuclear war is greater than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Other potentially existential military threats remain similarly uncontrolled.

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photo- Alfred Eisenstaedt