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Oppenheimer: “destroyer of worlds”

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The Importance of Robert Wilson in the Scientific Community

Most scientists at Los Alamos were equally ambivalent. There was initially a wave of elation that they had succeeded. At the same time, some of them became violently ill and vomited after the victory party. He was so upset by the news of Hiroshima. Most of these scientists who had participated in the bomb project left.

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