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Essay heading: Robert Oppenhimer
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On the day of the test, Oppenheimer fully realized the enormity of what he had just
accomplished. As he stood watching the mushroom cloud, he recalled later, a phrase from the
Baghavad Gita, the Hindu scripture, floated through his mind, "I am become death, the destroyer
of worlds." This responsibility weighed heavily on his shoulders, and when he met with President
Harry Truman in 1946, he exclaimed, "Mr...
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President, I have blood on my hands." (necularpages)
He set up a research station for the Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Following World
War II, Oppenheimer chaired the US Atomic Energy Commission. On December 21, 1953, during
the height of anti-communist sentiment in the US, Oppenheimer was accused of delaying the
naming of Soviet agents, and also of opposing the building of the hydrogen bomb...
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