GOING NUCLEAR Inside the life of nuclear bomb creator J Robert Oppenheimer and why some say he’s the most important man who ever lived IT cost two billion dollars and took three years of research, but no one knew if the first nuclear bomb would even work. Sitting in a bunker 20 miles away from the test site in the New Mexico desert in July 1945, its creator, J Robert Oppenheimer, could only watch and pray. 10 J Robert Oppenheimer created the first nuclear bomb Credit: AFP 10 Oppenheimer's world-changing moment has been recreated in a star-studded movie, pictured above...