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Later in the 20th century, various physicists in Nazi Germany cultivated their knowledge of atomic nuclei. Among them were the physicist Niels Bohr, who theorized nuclear fission, but also Otto Hans and Lise Meitner, who developed neutron bombardment of atomic nuclei to discover elements heavier than uranium. Many of these scientists had to flee their country because they were of Jewish descent. This is how this knowledge made its way to the United States, where other scientists such as Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman, and John von Neumann were also able to contribute to the so-called Manhattan Project: the American attempt to develop an atomic bomb before the Nazis did
The Manhattan Project was led by one of the most privileged scientific minds in the United States: Robert Oppenheimer. It was in the desert of Los Alamos, New Mexico, where on July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb in human history, codenamed Gadget ("Artifact"), was detonated That's how the most destructive and lethal device invented by mankind for the destruction of mankind. Oppenheimer himself is said to have recalled the verses of the holy book of Hinduism, the Bhagavad-gita, upon seeing what they had achieved: "Now I become Death, the destroyer of the worlds.
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