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    Synthesis Essay – J. Robert Oppenheimer MSgt Troyann O. Johnson Air Force Senior Noncommissioned Officer Academy   J. Robert Oppenheimer Take a moment and imagine yourself as a scientist. You’re in the Alamogordo desert. Your hands are sweating but not due to the heat. You’re waiting to see the first detonation of the weapon you developed – the atomic bomb. You’re asking, will it work at all? Will this one detonation destroy the entire world? Then moment of truth, it detonates; you are temporarily

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    Regret and Teaching “No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows” J. Robert Oppenheimer, a renowned scientist who created and taught wonderful things Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904 in New York. He always loved science and became a physics teacher early in his career. Later on, he landed a job as head scientist at Los Alamos, the site where the atomic bomb was being created. After the war ended, due to the atomic bomb being dropped, he became a anti-nuclear

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    “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” Robert Oppenheimer once said, “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” He said this after the first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945 in the Trinity test in New Mexico; Oppenheimer remarked later that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds," (J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes). Robert Oppenheimer is called the Father of the Atomic Bomb. As the bomb went off at the Trinity test site the

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    J. Robert Oppenheimer, a jewish scientist that created the nuclear bomb, was seen as both a positive and negative influence on the world. Oppenheimer helped change the world during the Manhatten Project and after. Being the "Father of the Atomic Bomb" Oppenheimer gained many enemies. People did not like that he opposed the hydrogen bomb and gained cultural power. J. Robert Oppenheimer may have had both positive and negative influences on the world. The Manhattan Project was a project set up

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    the city belonged to a lanky, beanstalk-looking man from New York named Julius Robert Oppenheimer, who later became known as “the father of the atomic bomb.” Robert Oppenheimer affected society in a positive way through his work in the Manhattan Project during World War II, his advancements in the world of physics and through establishing some of the top science research facilities in the country. Robert Oppenheimer, or “Oppie” to his friends, was an up-and-coming physics

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    countries that wanted to control the world. Without America, freedom would be gone in almost every country. The atomic bomb, created by Robert Oppenheimer, was a very dangerous weapon that killed many people, but also saved many countries from destruction. The bomb also helped shape the world as it is today. Firstly, the creator of the bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, was born on April 22, 1904.

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    the men he summoned was J. Robert Oppenheimer, who would become one of the most important scientists of the Manhattan Project. He was nicknamed the “Father of the Atomic Bomb” due to his contributions to the research of nuclear weapons (“Oppenheimer, J. Robert” [The Reader's Companion to American History]). His responsibilities included “organizing and building the main research laboratory of the project” and researching ways to create first atomic bomb (“Oppenheimer, J. Robert” [Science in a Contemporary

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    from him. A priest saw clouds of smoke rising from fires that started after the explosion (Hersey 18). Creating the atomic bomb which caused so much destruction was a process which involved many people. Leo Szilard, Albert Einstein, and Julius Oppenheimer were men whose work brought the beginning to the project. Every good idea needs a kick to it, something that stands out for people to notice and look deeper. That kick was Albert Einstein, who was important to the science of atoms before the

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    done for England. Franklin D. Roosevelt who was the 32nd president of the United States. He served as president from 1933 to 1945. He not only ended the great depression but also brought the american public through World War II. As well as J. Robert Oppenheimer

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    secret by roosevelt and the name of the project for the development of the nuclear bomb was called the manhattan project . In the manhattan project two scientists helped in the development of the next two atomic bombs which were enrico fermi and robert j oppenheimer . In the letter from einstein enrico fermi found out how to make a nuclear chain reaction and it was the major factor in the Tocmo 2 developing of the atomic bomb and enrico fermi “ he recreated many of his experiments with Niels Bohr, the

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