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...Staff writer Sam Teller can be reached at steller@fas.harvard.edu...
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Alexandra M. Gutierrez, David S. Marshall, and Sam Teller contributed to the reporting of this story...
...community was created in the high-altitude desert of Los Alamos, N.M., and hundreds of scientists were shipped in. A physics Dream Team was assembled: Teller, Hans Bethe, and Richard Feynman, among others. The heavy responsibility of overseeing these great minds and building the bomb wore away at Oppenheimer. Two years in, he only carried a gaunt 115 pounds on a 5-foot-10-inch frame, and his four-to-five pack-a-day cigarette habit did not help his health. These chapters in the book center on the physicists’ lives while leaving the scientific aspects...
...returned with a far-fetched report that Oppenheimer “had homosexual tendencies.” The FBI wiretapped his phones. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) member Lewis Strauss rabidly pursued Oppenheimer’s downfall too after Oppenheimer humiliated him during a Senate hearing. And finally there was Teller, “the father of the hydrogen bomb,” whose pet project Oppenheimer vehemently opposed...