... also been researching atomic weapons, and the American government felt that they were very far behind. The Manhattan Project was headed by Major General Leslie Groves, in close partnership with J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant theoretical physicist who was a professor at Berkeley and at Caltech. At various secret locations around the United States, countless scientists were involved, although a great percentage knew only ... in any production factory or research institute. The frontline for research and construction was the Los Alamos Laboratory, formerly a boy's ranch school that was ...

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... O. Lawrence, director of the electromagnetic separation project, and Arthur H. Compton, director of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, were not available. Groves had some doubts regarding the next best candidate, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Wood 2). Finally, Groves gambled on Oppenheimer, a theoretical mathematician, as director of the weapons laboratory, built on an isolated mesa (flat land area) at Los Alamos, New Mexico. After much difficulty, an absorbent barrier suitable ... ...

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... an atomic bomb before Germany. This project to produce the atomic bomb was named "The Manhattan Project- . Industrial and research activities took place all over the United States. J. Robert Oppenheimer led The Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer directed the design and building of the bomb. He and other scientists worked on this project from 1943 to 1945. The first atomic bomb was successfully exploded on ... ...

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... L. Szilard and J. Rotblat even left the Manhattan Project (the group that worked on creating the atom bomb). To the U.S. government (Truman) and military, successfully creating a nuclear bomb an important objective. J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist that headed the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb recalled that "I don't think there was any time where we worked harder at the speed-up than in ... ...

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