Daily News | As Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ opens, Montgomery County man recalls working on the H-Bomb
On a spring day, in 1950, on a Princeton campus blooming with beauty and genius, Ken Ford was asked to harness his intellect, and help turn abstractions and theories into history.
“Would you like to help work on the hydrogen bomb?” Ford was in his early 20s when he was asked the question, earning a Ph.D. in physics at the renowned Ivy League school. He didn’t pay attention to sports, he said, or politics, filling his days with equations and computations. He once attended a lecture that Albert Einstein sat in on and the urge to stay in New Jersey, hunkered down in studies, was strong.
“The other part of me thought ‘Do I really want to do this? Do I want to play a part in helping to develop the H-bomb?’,” Ford, 97, said Tuesday morning at the Montgomery County retirement community where he lives., was racing to build the atomic bomb to save humanity from Nazi Germany. For Ford, the dawning of Cold War threats helped him decide. He didn’t even ask his parents.“Well, I was told if we don’t do it, the Soviet Union will.
Ford, a father of seven, spent a year working on the H-bomb at New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory. Then later, back at Princeton under “Project Matterhorn.” Oppenheimer directed Los Alamos during World War II during his time on the Manhattan Project, then also went to Princeton.and personally knew at least 10 of them. He only met the “father of the atom bomb” in passing — Oppenheimer served on an H-bomb advisory committee — but other characters in the film were at his first wedding.
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