... to establish a program to study the potential military use of fission, and $6,000 was appropriated to conduct research on the issue (Britannica). One of the physicists researching the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, realized that the most efficient way to work more closely and in secret was to set up one single lab with living spaces around it. This is where scientists, physicists ... explosion, the atomic bomb's creators had mixed reactions: Isidor Rabi felt that the equilibrium in nature had been upset - as if humankind had become a threat to the world it inhibited. J. Robert Oppe...

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... was chosen to lead the project, and he immediately purchased a site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Groves then chose a scientific director for the bomb project, J. Robert Oppenheimer, who built on an isolated area in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Oppenheimer was the major force behind the project and worked to make sure that all of the great minds working on this project made their visions ... ...

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