Humans tend to want a "hero/villain" in our stories. Irl, thousands of people worked on the Manhattan Project and even more had done the theoretical work before it. E.g., a lot of work done by the Brits on the bomb are forgotten because it was the US who built it first.
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Yes, you are right - a lot of people worked behind the development of the nuclear bomb. I don't know about the Brits, I gotta do more research that.