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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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