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Why American culture fixates on the tragic image of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the most famous man behind the atomic bomb

  • Written by Charles Thorpe, Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
Why American culture fixates on the tragic image of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the most famous man behind the atomic bombJ. Robert Oppenheimer would go on to be called 'father of the bomb.'Bettmann via Getty Images

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s triumph was his tragedy. Oppenheimer had many achievements in theoretical physics but is remembered as the so-called father of the atomic bomb. Under his directorship, scientists at Los Alamos Laboratory, where the bomb was...

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