ABSTRACT
The development of the nuclear bomb during World War II changed the way people thought about power and the way nations conducted themselves in peace and in war. The strategies and methods which were employed in the scientific effort to develop the bomb in each of the countries involvedthe U.S., the U.K., the (then) U.S.S.R., and Germany-would themselves make a most fascinating study. That such a bomb went much beyond what was envisioned may be gauged from the way R.J. Oppenheimer, the man at the helm of the Manhattan Project in the U.S., exclaimed when he first saw the blazing light of the bomb. He was so stunned and dazzled that he could only murmur and quote from The Bhagwad Gita, “Brighter than a Thousand Suns”—one of the attributes of the Virat Roopa of God as delineated in this much venerated book.
