Fermi, a Nobel laureate in physics, had fled fascism in Europe and become a founder of the nuclear age ... Robert Oppenheimer, who during World War II led the making of the first atomic bomb ...

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At the birth of the FAS ... 10 Since 1945, the atomic scientists had said that there was no effective defense against nuclear weapons. The arrival of the missile age in the late 1950s put a point on ...

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