The father of the atomic bomb, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, plays himself in a 1946 re-enactment of the July 16, 1945 Trinity Test. The awkward scientist co-starring with Dr. Oppenheimer is physicist and Nobel laureate Isidor Isaac Rabi.
The final piece of our first Nuclear weapons, beryllium for the initiator, was supplied by Father Michael DeLisle Lyons, S.J. (Jesuits) of Detroit. Yep . . . a priest. For this amazing story Google "WWJ, A Jesuit and the Bomb." Fr. Lyons was my great-uncle.Fr. Macelwane of St. Louis University was also involved in the Manhattan Project.
The final piece of our first Nuclear weapons, beryllium for the initiator, was supplied by Father Michael DeLisle Lyons, S.J. (Jesuits) of Detroit. Yep . . . a priest. For this amazing story Google "WWJ, A Jesuit and the Bomb." Fr. Lyons was my great-uncle.Fr. Macelwane of St. Louis University was also involved in the Manhattan Project.
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