Memo from J. Robert Oppenheimer to all members of the Los Alamos Laboratory, 1945
- 1945-Aug-08

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Small JPG1200 x 1554px — 291 KBLarge JPG2880 x 3729px — 2.1 MBFull-sized JPG6516 x 8436px — 11.0 MBOriginal fileTIFF — 6516 x 8436px — 157 MBJ. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) passes along a message from Robert P. Patterson (1891-1952) to the staff of the Los Alamos Laboratory. The message congratulates the team for their work on the Manhattan Project in the immediate aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima.
With the message from Patterson, Oppenheimer attaches another message to the staff stressing the need to maintain secrecy about the Manhattan Project despite the public announcement of its existence.
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Oppenheimer, J. Robert. “Memo from J. Robert Oppenheimer to All Members of the Los Alamos Laboratory, 1945,” August 8, 1945. Richard W. Dodson Papers, Box 5, Folder 11. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/gy0kcr2.
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