Years ago, young Armand Singh worked with Dr. Oppenheimer on the Manhattan Project. He suggested a system of shaped charges to negate pre-initiation, earning praise from his mentor. As an adult, he oversaw the vivisection of animals, and later began taking political dissidents from prison as test subjects. When other scientists began to question their work, and sign antinuclear petitions, he considered them cowards. He burned their petition. As the other Manhattan Project scientists watched the first nuclear explosion with awe, Mindbender merely smiled, proud of what science could accomplish.