... manner uranium-235 was enriched from its normal 0.7% to weapons grade of more than 90%."(Grolier 5) This Uranium was then transported to "the Los Alamos, N. Mex., laboratory headed by J. Robert Oppenheimer."(Grolier 5) "Oppenheimer was the major force behind the Manhattan Project. He literally ran the show and saw to it that all of the great minds working on this project made their brainstorms ... that it would work. There was a debate at Los Alamos about whether to test the new plutonium 'implosion' bomb before it was actually dropped. "Harvard explosives expert George B. Kistiakowsky ...

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... manner uranium-235 was enriched from its normal 0.7% to weapons grade of more than 90%."(Grolier 5) This Uranium was then transported to "the Los Alamos, N. Mex., laboratory headed by J. Robert Oppenheimer."(Grolier 5) "Oppenheimer was the major force behind the Manhattan Project. He literally ran the show and saw to it that all of the great minds working on this project made their brainstorms ... that it would work. There was a debate at Los Alamos about whether to test the new plutonium 'implosion' bomb before it was actually dropped. "Harvard explosives expert George B. Kistiakowsky ...

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... in an atomic bomb. So shortly after receiving the letter the president-started research of they're own and named it the Manhattan project. The project was headed by: Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein. Both were German scientists and mathematician. The research and testing took place in central Tennessee, on Black Oak Ridge witch is now the leading center for research ... on September 17, 1942 the bomb was tested at Los Alamos New Mexico. The bomb was set on top a large steel tower and viewed by Leslie Richard Groves and Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer as it was detonated. All that...

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... lighter, more "fissionable" isotope U-235. Next, he gathered and combined research from many East Coast universities under direction of Arthur Compton, at the University of Chicago. He appointed theoretical physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer as the director of the weapons laboratory, which was built on an isolated mesa located at Los Alamos, New Mexico. After much work, a porous barrier that could separate the isotopes ... ...

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A team of scientists led by Robert Oppenheimer developed the first atomic bomb. The project that led to the discovery of the atomic bomb was called the Manhattan project. It started out under the bleachers at stag field ... ...

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