USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is often credited as the “father of the atomic bomb” for his role in the Manhattan Project-the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons.

Detailed explanation-2: -Robert Oppenheimer. J. Robert Oppenheimer led the design and development of the first atomic bombs.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1942, Oppenheimer was appointed to the Manhattan Project, code name for the project formed to develop an atomic bomb.

Detailed explanation-4: -He is often referred to as the “father” of the atomic bomb. (In 1944, the Oppenheimers’ second child, Katherine (called Toni), was born at Los Alamos.) The joint work of the scientists at Los Alamos resulted in the first nuclear explosion at Alamagordo on July 16, 1945, which Oppenheimer named “Trinity."

Detailed explanation-5: -Lieutenant General Leslie Groves (1896-1970) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer and director of the Manhattan Project. In September 1942, Groves was appointed to head the Manhattan Project with the rank of Temporary Brigadier General.