Larger than life: who was J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific head of the World War II bomb project? His reputation remains nearly mythic; the man himself, a mystery.

From: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

THE PERSON WHO HAD THE CLOSEST CONTACT with President Franklin Roosevelt on nuclear matters was an engineer named Vannevar Bush. He had persuaded the president to set up a National Defense Research Committee, which he then headed. In October 1941 he met with the president to brief him about the British report of the MAUD [Military Application of Uranium Detonation] committee. He then won approval to launch a full-scale bomb program in the United States. After some months it became clear that it had grown beyond the scope of various projects scattered around the country, such as ...

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