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The biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer is discussed in the article. Oppenheimer was a physicist known as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb." He led the secret Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb. Although Oppenheimer was against the use of nuclear weapons, two atomic bombs were used against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Oppenheimer later became the target of the FBI and was falsely accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union. However, he was later publicly rehabilitated. The authors of the biography conducted interviews with Oppenheimer's family members and colleagues, and they were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for their work. [Extracted from the article]