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Manhattan Project
Atomic Bomb
J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director
Leslie Groves, military director
Nuclear Weapons
World War II, the need to build an atom bomb before Germany
authorization by President Roosevelt
construction of nuclear plants
Doctor Atomic, opera inspired by the Manhattan Project
facility locations
impact on science education in the U.S.
later development of hydrogen bomb
pictures related to the Manhattan Project
scientists and engineers
successor agency
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Oppenheimer, J. Robert (1904-1967), American physicist and government adviser, who directed the development of the first atomic bombs.
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