Filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer has brought back into focus the American scientist
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People of this generation need to know his story, and how and why he developed the atomic bomb during World War II.
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Oppenheimer is all set to release in theaters worldwide on July 21, 2023. Let’s know about J Robert Oppenheimer ahead of the film’s release.
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Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904, in New York. He died on February 18, 1967, in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Oppenheimer went on to become a renowned scientist and theoretical physicist. He was made in charge of researching, designing, and developing the atomic bomb during World War II.
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The development of the atomic bomb was a part of the Manhattan Project or the ‘Project Y’ of the Manhattan Engineer District in New Mexico.
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The US government project aimed to develop a nuclear weapon before the Germans could do so.
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Oppenheimer was not in favor of using the atomic bomb in a nuclear attack on Japan and was said to be distraught when it was used not once but twice.