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| The American theoretical physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, directed the wartime production of the first atomic bombs at the Los Alamos laboratory. His opposition to the development of the hydrogen bomb cost him his government security clearance during the anti-Communist fervour of the 1950s. | ||||||
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