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Kelsee Do you know who discovered how to make the nuclear bomb? J. Robert Oppenheimer is a man that helped work on the bomb. The bomb was tested near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Isidor Isaac Rabi was a witness to this explosion and when he described the testing of the bomb, he said it looked like a mushroom.

J. Robert Oppenheimer
Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the men that worked on the bomb. He was the first to experiment with a nuclear device. Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904. He became involved in the atomic bomb project in October 1941 which would later be called The Manhattan Engineer District Project. He was appointed director of what was going to happen in the Los Alamos Laboratory, in November 1942. That means that Oppenheimer was going to help design and construct the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer was very good with scientific ideas and had a powerful personal charisma.

Testing the bomb.
The first tested bomb was dropped at 5:45A.M on July 16, 1945. The bomb was tested in a desert near Alamogordo new Mexico. When the bomb was dropped it sent up mushroom shaped cloud of dust and smoke.

A man who witnessed named Isidor Isaac Rabi watched he said.. “ Suddenly there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have even seen or that I think anyone has ever seen. It blasted; it pounded; it bored its way right through you. It was a vision, which was seen with more than eye… Finally it was over.. And we looked toward the place where the bomb had been; there was an enormous ball of fire which grew,, and grew and it rolled as it grew; it went up into the air; yellow flashes and into scarlet and green. It looked menacing. It seemed to come toward one.”

Isidor Isaac Rabi
Isidor Isaac Rabi was born in Raymanoy, Austria, on July 29. 1898. He is the son of David Rabi and Janet Teig. In 1918 he graduated with a bachelors degree in Chemistry from Cornell University. After three years in a non-scientific job, he started his studies in physics at Cornell in 1921. He later went to Columbia University to get his Ph.D. He was granted leave from Columbia, in 1940 to work as the Associate Director of the Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the development of radar and the atomic bomb.

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