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Notably, the development of these sites displaced parts of the Navajo Nation and southwest Pueblo nations who inhabited the land.įollowing the war, Oppenheimer surrendered the helm of atomic weapon development. The Trinity site - where the bomb was first tested in July 1945 - stood 220 miles south. In 1942, he was recruited to direct the laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which became the most famous nuclear development site to come out of WWII.

A faculty member at UC Berkeley, Oppenheimer is commonly attributed with helping bring quantum mechanics to America. Oppenheimer’s story stands out among those central to the Manhattan Project, the wartime operation that was responsible for the development of the world’s first atomic bomb. Robert Oppenheimer himself to the rarely-credited women who “crunched the numbers,” and the physicists responsible for the world’s first anti-nuclear non-governmental organization. Princeton’s part in this atomic history involves a range of players, from J. Princeton benefited afterwards because of its special role. “But back then, it was seen as this great thing Princeton had done. “You might think that you wouldn’t be so proud of having worked on nuclear weapons, given where we are now at Princeton,” said Mian in a recent interview.

Zia Mian, co-director of the University’s Program on Science and Global Security (SGS), points to that headline as giving a crucial insight into atomic history. The Herald covered Princeton’s instrumental role in developing “the greatest discovery in modern warfare.”ĭr. That was the front page of the Princeton Herald a few days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki took over 200,000 civilian lives, brought World War II to an end, and eternally raised the stakes of global war.

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