Robert Oppenheimer (L) survey the area in Alamogordo, N.M., where a tower once stood before the test bomb exploded. dropped the first nuclear weapon used on a military target three weeks later in Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. The joint work at Los Alamos resulted in the first nuclear explosion, a test of the atomic bomb which Oppenheimer called Trinity, on Jin Alamogordo, New Mexico. The scientists, including Oppenheimer's younger brother Frank, worked at the lab for several years - even Oppenheimer's second child was born at Los Alamos in 1944. Oppenheimer oversaw the construction of a secret laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where he recruited several scientists to move to the lab so they could work on the bomb until it was completed, according to Atomic Archive. In 1942, General Leslie Groves, portrayed by Matt Damon in the film, appointed Oppenheimer as director of the Manhattan Project, code name for the governmental project to develop an atomic bomb. When World War II began, Oppenheimer got involved in efforts to develop an atomic bomb in Lawrence’s Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, according to Atomic Archive. Kitty, portrayed by Emily Blunt in the film, had their first child in 1941. Oppenheimer said he proposed to Tatlock twice, according to the Atomic Heritage Museum, but eventually married Katherine (Kitty) Peuning Harrison, a biologist and twice divorcee, in 1940. The pair had an intense relationship for several years, and Tatlock, played by Florence Pugh, introduced him to several members of the Bay Area Communist Party, of which she was a paying member. In 1936, he met Jean Tatlock, then a student at Stanford University Medical School, according to the Atomic Heritage Museum.
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