By: Chris Burkhardt

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By Chris Burkhardt
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1Q. Mr. Oppenheimer, what do you think most
positively affected your studies in physics and
chemistry? 1A. I believe that my education that I
received was what really affected my studies.
The four years that I spent at Harvard and the
short years that I spent at Cambridge helped me
to fully develop my scientific knowledge.
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2Q. Mr. Oppenheimer, do you believe that your
work with the Government on the Manhattan Project
was used for the good of science, or do you
believe that what you developed was a pure
monster? 2A. I think that my work with the Manhat
tan Project did advance science in general but as
I have stated earlier, I have become Death, the
destroyer of worlds. This shows that what I
helped create was merely for science, and not to
wreck the lives of people in Japan or anywhere
else where people are involved.
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3Q. Out of all the famous people that you have
met in your life, who do you feel has made the
biggest impact on you? 3A. Two men by the names o
f Ernest Rutherford and Werner Heisenberg, who
were my teachers at Cambridge, made the biggest
impact on my life because they were the fathers
of quantum mechanics and atomic theory.
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4Q. Do you feel that the situation at hand with
World War II going on that you were more
motivated by the fact that this weapon had to be
made or that the Germans might have destroyed you
and the world with this technology?
4A. I feel that World War did affect my process
in that I took less precautions and that I had to
get this done as soon as possible.
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5Q. Do you think that if Dirac would not have
come up with his theory on the electron that you
would have been able to define the positron?
5A. Without the work of Dirac on his theory of
electron I would not be the discoverer of the
positron.
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6Q. How were you able to come up with the theory
of the large stars collapsing into black holes
which later became known as Neutron stars?
6A. I was able to come up with the theory of the
Neutron Star because of my years of teaching at
Berkley and Cal Tech and because of the excellent
staff that I worked with there.
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7Q. Why were you so against developing the super
hydrogen bomb? 7A. The reason that I was against
the development of the super hydrogen bomb was
because the atomic bomb was big enough the way it
was and that I did not want to be responsible for
the death of any more people than I already was.
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8Q. Why did you chose to make your lab in Los
Alamos? 8A. This was simple. The reason I chose L
os Alamos was because I had vacationed there and
felt that it was a very relaxing spot where I
could get away from all of the hassles of
everyday life.
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9Q. How did it feel to work with so many experts
in the field of science on one big project?
9A. I felt that it was a huge accomplishment for
the science world that some many notable figures
could get together in one room and work on one
project.
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10Q. When you witnessed the explosion of your
bomb how did you feel? Did you feel that you had
accomplished something important?
10A. When the bomb blew up I knew I had created
something big that would forever be a threat to
world power. Also though I felt a little sad that
I knew that I had created something that would
end the lives of millions if used improperly.
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