... 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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... 1942 so the country could develop an atomic device. A team under the command of United States Army Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves designed and built the first atomic bombs, directed by J. Robert Oppenheimer. This type of bomb was first tested at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. The amount of energy that was released by this explosion alone was equivalent to twenty ... ...

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... bomb. FDR was very concerned and got the smartest people he could find to make one an atomic bomb for the United States. The father of the Manhattan Project was Robert Oppenheimer. He is sometimes referred to as "The Father of the bomb." He was the main person involved in the making of the bomb. He was the leader of the weapons ... ...

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