Robert Oppenheimer's name has become almost synonymous with the atomic bomb, and also with the dilemma facing scientists when the interests of the nation and their own conscience collide.

Most people were silent." Los Alamos National Laboratory The top-secret laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, opened in April 1943 with J. Robert Oppenheimer as its scientific director.

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a theoretical physicist. During World War II, he served as director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory, where he led the effort to develop the world’s ...