GK
INVENTIONS
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Robert Oppenheimer
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James B. Conant
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Leslie R. Groves
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Vannevar Bush
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Detailed explanation-1: -Robert Oppenheimer. Einstein warned that the Germans were researching an atomic bomb and suggested that the United States do the same. Oppenheimer was the leading scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Detailed explanation-2: -Eight months after the United States entered World War II, the federal government launched the Manhattan Project, an all-out, but highly secret, effort to build an atomic bomb – and to build one before the Germans did.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1942, Roosevelt approved the creation of the Manhattan Engineer District, officially starting the Manhattan Project, and approved $500 million dollars for the project in December that same year.
Detailed explanation-4: -American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer headed the project to develop the atomic bomb, and Edward Teller was among the first recruited for the project. Leo Szilard and Enrico Fermi built the first nuclear reactor.