Brig. Gen. Leslie R. Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer working on the Manhattan Project.

First British H-bomb test - Operation Grapple X Round C1

J. Robert Oppenheimer, born on April 22, 1904,

was the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II project that developed the first nuclear weapons. He strongly opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, however, and in 1953 was suspended from secret nuclear research as an alleged communist sympathizer, a case backed by Edward Teller. In 1963 he was reinstated and awarded the Enrico Fermi Award.

Julius Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967)

was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Along with Enrico Fermi, he is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II project that developed the first nuclear weapons. 48w I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Ernest Lawrence, key figures in the Manhattan Project

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Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer

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Top scientists at ground zero soon after the world’s first nuclear explosion July 1945

the first atomic bomb,

tested in 1945 in New Mexico, was the culmination of the 'Manhattan Project'. It was simply referred to as 'the gadget'.

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Employees of the Manhattan Project

operating calutron control panels at Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge, c. 1943. US government photo by Ed Westcott.