Since Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' took the Academy Award for Best Picture, there's no doubt that people's curiosity has been sparked about the "father of the atomic bomb." J. Robert Oppenheimer was known for creating the first nuclear weapon during World War II. The theoretical physicist was the director of the Manhattan Project’s secret Los Alamos National Laboratory, which created the atomic bombs that killed an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
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