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|name             = J. Robert Oppenheimer
|image            = Oppenheimer.jpg
|nationality      = {{Americans|[[United States]]}}
|religion         = {{Judaism|[[Judaism]]}}
|birth            = {{1900s Births OTL|1904}}
|death            = {{1960s Deaths OTL|1967}}
|cause of death   = {{CancerOTL|Throat cancer}}
|occupation       = {{Physicist|Physicist}}, {{Authors of|Non-Fiction}}
|spouse           = Kitty Harrison
|children         = Peter, Katherine
|professional affiliations     = [[Manhattan Project]]}}{{Clearright}}{{Joe Steele Historical Character
|death           = {{1940s Deaths Fiction|1946}}
|cause of death  = {{ExecutionFirearmFictional|Execution by firing squad}}
|type of appearance = Posthumous references|novel or story = Both}}{{Stack end}}'''Julius Robert Openheimer''' (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an [[American]] theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. He is best known as "the father of the [[atomic bomb]]" for his role as the scientific director of the [[Manhattan Project]], the [[World War II]] effort to develop the first nuclear weapons in the [[New Mexico]] desert. His anti-proliferation stance and his ties to [[Communism]] in his youth led to his fall-from-grace in the political arena.

== J. Robert Oppenheimer in ''[[Joe Steele (novel)|Joe Steele]]''==
'''J. Robert Oppenheimer''' (1904–1946) was one of several scientists rounded up and executed for [[Wrecking (Joe Steele)|"wrecking"]], after [[President of the United States (Joe Steele)|President]] [[Joe Steele]] learned that [[Albert Einstein (Joe Steele)|Albert Einstein]] had deliberately withheld the idea of the [[Atomic bomb (Joe Steele)|atomic bomb]] from the [[United States of America (Joe Steele)|United States]].

Many of the executed men were [[Jews (Joe Steele)|Jewish]]. While President Steele and his enforcers never openly acknowledged an anti-Semitic agenda, they did not deny it either.<ref>''[[Joe Steele (novel)|Joe Steele]]'', pg. 392.</ref>

===Literary comment===
Oppenheimer met the same fate in the [[Joe Steele (story)|short story]], where the "[[Professors' Plot]]" gives the roundup a more blatantly anti-Semitic aura.

==See also==
*[[Barbie dolls|Barbie]], Oppenheimer's chief rival in 2023.

==References==
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