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Julius Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons at the secret Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. For this reason he is remembered as 'The Father of the Atomic Bomb'.

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The physicist in charge of the Manhattan Project, which developed the Hiroshima bomb, was J. Robert Oppenheimer.

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Robert Oppenheimer was in overall control of the "Manhattan Project".

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