Jonathan Adam (Earth-3020)

"I am going to look at the stars. They are so farDr Manhattan Jonathan Osterman Watchmen away, and their light takes so long to reach us...All we ever see of stars are their old photographs."

- - Captain Atom to Laurie Eling

Doctor Jonathan "Jon" Adam was originally the child of Veronica and Bruce Adam, Jon was considerable too weak to die, which made his father genetically augment him with Nanomeds, which were holders of immense radiation and energy manipulation. Bruce eventually went mad with his son and what he created, killing Veronica. Raised by scientist Raymond Fisher during his adolescence, Jon met with Laurie Eiling, whom he married, but her father, General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Eiling did not approve of this choice, and secretly plotted an accident involving a nuclear physics experiment. Due to his Nanomeds, Jon was taken outside the physical rexistence and returned as Captain Atom, a being with god-like powers, including superhuman strength, telekinesis, the ability to teleport himself or others over planetary, and interplanetary distances, control over matter at a subatomic level, near total clairvoyance. Furthermore, he perceives the past, present and future as happening simultaneously, but at least believes that he cannot act on that knowledge since his own actions and reactions to chronological events are apparently predetermined.

After destroying his returned father in an epic conflict into San Francisco and travelling through the world to escape from Eling and the military, Atom didn't passed unnoticed by Amanda Waller, who put his name into the Watchmen Project, an superhero team assembled by the top-secret ARGUS. Jon would play a pivotal role in both conflicts with the Watchmen, first against the New HYDRA and later on the War for Earth incited by Ares, where he converted his body into an atomic bomb.