TOKYO (Kyodo) — Charles Oppenheimer, grandson of physicist Robert Oppenheimer, known as the
TOKYO (Kyodo) — Charles Oppenheimer, grandson of physicist Robert Oppenheimer, known as the “father of the atomic bomb,” visited Hiroshima for the first time this summer, 79 years after the nuclear attack and emphasized the critical need for dialogue among nuclear power adversaries to prevent a war that could annihilate humanity. “My grandfather and the other scientists involved in the Manhattan Project clearly saw the arms race before the war ended, and saw a way to avoid it by increasing cooperation.