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Summary:On December 2, 1943, one of the world's most talented physicists, Robert Oppenheimer, was given an awesome task, to set up a laboratory capable of making an atomic bomb. Oppenheimer's work culminated in the world's first atomic explosion and the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima.
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