The Manhattan Project | Chain Reaction | 1
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Oppenheimer's Qualities and the Search for a Site
The chapter explores J. Robert Oppenheimer's qualities that made him suitable to lead the atomic bomb project, despite concerns about his lack of practical experience and associations with the Communist Party. It also describes how Oppenheimer and General Groves searched for a site for a central laboratory, considering Oppenheimer's family ranch and eventually deciding on a private school in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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