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August 15, 2023August 15, 2023 John J.H. Lee Musings

Oppenheimer: The Father of the Atomic Bomb

The photo above (Getty Image) is the view of the mushroom cloud from the atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. This was taken from almost 10 km away on August 9, 1945. The American theoretical physicist of German-Jewish descent J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) led the Manhattan Project (1942-) as the director of … Continue reading Oppenheimer: The Father of the Atomic Bomb

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