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What constitutes righteous action in the face of moral ambiguity and the inevitability of violence? This question is at the heart of The Bhagavad Gita.

Did the American physicist turn to this particular verse in the Gita as a crutch to justify his role in the construction of the atomic bomb?

For J. Robert Oppenheimer, the subject of Christopher Nolan’s biopic of the nuclear physicist regarded as the Father of the Atomic Bomb, the Bhagavad Gita was a spiritual crutch, although his belief...

For J. Robert Oppenheimer, the subject of Christopher Nolan's biopic of the nuclear physicist regarded as the 'Father of the Atomic Bomb, the Bhagavad Gita was a spiritual crutch, although his belief has been overshadowed by the scene in the ...

Robert Oppenheimer counted the Hindu holy book Bhagavad Gita as one of his favourites.

The 'father of the atomic bomb' counted the Hindu holy book Bhagavad Gita as one of his favourites.

Oppenheimer has listed the Gita as one of his favourite books

J Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist famously known as the father of the atomic bomb, after making headlines in the world of Physics in 1945, has once again become the talk of the town...

The very fact that the Gita verse resonated so deeply in Oppenheimers consciousness reveals that he was, in his heart, a pacifist, a compassionate man who wished no one harm. At the same time, his dharma as a physicist - fervently engaged in putting together a deadly bomb - did not leave him any other option than to see the four-year Manhattan project to fruition.

Robert Oppenheimer counted the Hindu holy book Bhagavad Gita as one of his favourites.