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On July 16, 1945, he was present at the first test of the atomic bomb, Trinity. In August 1945, the weapons were used against Japan in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.
- He Studied Sanskrit and Read Hindu Scripture
- He First Fell in Love with New Mexico When He Was Convalescing There as A Teen.
- He Became Interested in Communism During The Great Depression
- He Was Blacklisted During The 1950s Red Scare and Lost His Security Clearance
Oppenheimer’s most famous quote comes from the 1965 documentary The Decision to Drop the Bomb. In it, Oppenheimer recalls seeing the first nuclear bomb teston July 16, 1945: “We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita: V...
In 1942, Oppenheimer chose the Los Alamos Ranch School in New Mexicoas the site for the Manhattan Project’s secret laboratory. It met many of the requirements needed for the project (for example, it was relatively isolated but still near a train track), and it was also in a part of the country Oppenheimer had fallen in love with when he was a teena...
The Great Depression helped fuel an interest in workers’ rights and communism in the United States. During the late 1930s, Oppenheimer attended events supporting leftist causes, donated to the anti-fascist Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and subscribed to the leftist newspaper People’s World. He never officially joined the U.S. Communist Party...
In 1946, the United States formed the Atomic Energy Commission to oversee the country’s nuclear weapons program. Oppenheimer used his position on this commission to argue for more control of nuclear weapons and against the development of the hydrogen bomb, which the United States tested for the first timein 1952. “He was opposed to pursuing the hyd...
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Jul 13, 2023 · Around 10km (6 miles) away, the world's first atomic bomb test, codenamed "Trinity", was set to proceed in the pale sands of the Jornada del Muerto desert, in New Mexico. Oppenheimer was a...
Jan 8, 2024 · Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer is often called the “father of the atomic bomb” for leading the Manhattan Project, the program that developed the first nuclear weapon during World War II.
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Jun 27, 2023 · Did the legendary physicist really regret his nuclear creation? The truth is as complicated as the science behind the bomb. Here’s how Oppenheimer birthed—and questioned—the atomic bomb.
May 28, 2024 · J. Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the atomic bomb was designed. The theoretical work of how the atomic bomb would function had to be converted into a practical weapon that could be dropped from an airplane and explode above its target.
Jul 21, 2023 · As he witnessed the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on July 16, 1945, a piece of Hindu scripture ran through the mind of J. Robert Oppenheimer: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of...
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