During World War II Bohm was considered to be tone of the brights physicists from Berkeley to be hired to be apart of the making of the atomic bomb under the Manhattan project. Bohm was offered a job from Oppenheimer but he turned Oppenheimer down because his interest in the politics was too story and that helped him decide that he did not want to be apart of this process. Bohm stayed in Berkeley and he had the position as a physics professor and he got his PhD. Bohm began to think more and more about what he had told Oppenheimer and eventually caved and decided to add his knowledge to contribute to the making of the Atomic Bomb. He did the calculations for the Calutrons at the Y-12 in Oak Ridge. This calculation that Bohm had figured out was but into the bomb that was used to bomb Hiroshima in 1945.
After the dropping of the bomb Bohm joined Einstein at Princeton University. Under Einstein's assistance he was called to testify before the House of Un-American Activities Committee in 1949. It was concluded that the proceeding could of been described as a "modern day witch hunt, that ruined hundreds of lives." After this he went to Sao Paulo, Brazil and became a Chair in Physics at the University of Sao Paulo.
After the dropping of the bomb Bohm joined Einstein at Princeton University. Under Einstein's assistance he was called to testify before the House of Un-American Activities Committee in 1949. It was concluded that the proceeding could of been described as a "modern day witch hunt, that ruined hundreds of lives." After this he went to Sao Paulo, Brazil and became a Chair in Physics at the University of Sao Paulo.