'In Memory of J.R. Oppenheimer'

36"H x 72"W x 8"D
Raku Fired Ceramic
1997

I feel that Oppenheimer never got the respect he deserved from the politicians or the scientific community. Lets face it, without his superb intelligence and "charisma" the Manhattan Project would have never materialized. Man, the species, was ready to make the steps to the atomic age … Would it have been better if Hitler's scientist made the "bomb"? Or what if the invasion of Japan took two to three years instead of 3 days... where the island would have been turned into dust and most of its inhabitants would have been killed from conventional bombings…?