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J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER : THE BRAIN BEHIND THE BOMB
Berkeley Heights, NJ : MyReportLinks.com Book, 2008
IL 5-8, RL 8.6
ISBN 1598450506
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You may know that World War II ended when the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan.  What you may not know is who invented the atomic bomb.  And how did he feel about the use of the bomb?  J. Robert Oppenheimer was the lead physicist on the team that developed the bomb.  They worked in secret on what was called the Manhattan Project.
SUBJECTS:     Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
                        Physicists.
                        Atomic bomb -- History.

 
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