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Los Alamos was a classified research laboratory site, built as part of the Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb, along with Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Hanford, Washington. The site was home to a “secret city” built to accommodate thousands of scientists, engineers, and their families.
On July 16, 1945, the world's first nuclear explosion occurred when a plutonium implosion device was detonated at a site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos, in New Mexico.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer was credited for being a founding father of the American school of theoretical physics.
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This 2023, Matt Damon will play General Leslie Grove, Military and Head of the Manhattan Project in Christopher Nolan's upcoming biopic movie OPPENHEIMER (2023).
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Get the Matt Damon mug.An American actor is considered one of Hollywood’s most gifted and versatile performers. He played Iron Man since 2008 and has topped the Forbes list of Hollywood's highest-paid actors.
Robert Downey Jr. will be playing Lewis Strauss an American financier and government official who served as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission during WWII in Christopher Nolan's new biopic movie OPPENHEIMER.
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Emily Blunt is set to play the role of Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer, wife of Los Alamos Director J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) for Christopher Nolan's upcoming historical biography about the father of the atomic bomb, Oppenheimer coming in 2023.
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Get the Emily Blunt mug.Florence Pugh is an English actress. She is known for Midsommar (2019), Little Women (2019), her MCU debut Black Widow (2021), and the upcoming biopic OPPENHEIMER about the man who created the first atomic bomb.
Florence Pugh has established herself as one of the most fearless, versatile talents of her generation. She is cast in the new Nolan film Oppenheimer (2023) as Jean Tatlock, a member of the U.S. Communist party and on-and-off lover of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy).
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Get the Florence Pugh mug.This infamous quote was said by the Director of Los Alamos Laboratory, and Father of Atomic Bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer on July 16, 1945. After they witnessed the detonation of the first nuclear implosion device at the Trinity test in Los Alamos, NM.
Now, I am become death, the destroyer of worlds quote was in reference to the story of Vishnu and Prince Arjuna from the Bhagavad Gita. Herein, Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
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