Research Paper On Julius Robert Oppenheimer

The Destroyer of Worlds Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an American physicist credited as the primary inventor of the atomic bomb. In the time Oppenheimer had found himself occupied within, a horrible war was taking place, World War Two. Oppenheimer, as the director behind the Manhattan Project, found himself creating the world's greatest weapon of mass destruction, the atomic bomb. ¨[I]ts power was even greater than they had expected¨ (159), stated Grant when referring to the atomic bomb. Through the creation of the atom bomb, Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project had both secured themselves a place in textbooks around the world. This paper will be analyzing the atomic bomb's purpose, need, modern-day utilization, creation, creator, and warning

The effort of the atomic bomb was created by a trio of countries and worthy scientists, ¨[A] combined policy committee with Great Britain and Canada was established. In that year a number of scientists from those countries moved to the United States to join the project there¨, (The Editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica 4). The process in which the atomic bomb was created involved multiple new process discoveries; the electromagnetic process in California, the diffusion process in Colombia University, and thermal diffusion created by Philip Hauge Abelson. Eventually, with the proper findings, funding, and scientists, the first atomic blast was set off in Alamogordo, New Mexico. ¨[I]t was detonated on top of a steel tower surrounded by scientific equipment, with remote monitoring taking place in bunkers occupied by scientists¨, (The Editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica 11). Following this event, when the United States eventually deemed it necessary, two atomic bombs were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan. Up to present day, this event remains the only use of atomic bombs as means of a weapon in an armed conflict. Currently, many countries have atomic bombs, but they are not currently used. The consequence of the dropping of these bombs on Japan was the Japanese surrender, allowing for an easier obtained victory over one of the Axis Powers. Undoubtedly, without the work of scientists like Oppenheimer, many more American casualties would have been sustained in