But Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Groves chose Oppenheimer as the Manhattan Project’s director in 1942 ... Einstein had signed a letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, written by physicist ...

The implication that the Nazis could develop extremely powerful weapons prompted President Roosevelt to establish the Manhattan Project in 1941. In June 1942, Robert Oppenheimer was appointed its ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who oversaw the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos ... transcripts, letters, diaries, declassified documents and FBI dossiers. Mark Sommerfeld for The ...

Robert Oppenheimer's grandson is among the star-studded signatories of a new open letter about the dangers ... the physicist's life after the Manhattan Project was dedicated to nuclear non ...

It presents a new lens in which to consider one of the most well-known events in the US—but Oppenheimer is not the only way to access the memory of this history. Manhattan Project National ...

Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research ... well as transcripts from congressional hearings and letters among some of the principals offers a unique ...

As part of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos — both its very existence and the work that went on there — was kept from Americans during World War II. Many of the thousands of scientists on the ...

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...

In reality, Oppenheimer consulted Arthur Compton, who was directing the University of Chicago efforts of the Manhattan Project ... Einstein wrote the letter that convinced President Franklin ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a theoretical physicist. During World War II, he served as director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory, where he led the effort to develop the world’s ...

Oppenheimer was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project and therefore responsible for the research and design of the atomic bomb. He is often known as the “father of the ...