'Oppenheimer': How Jewish refugees beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb - opinion
Many Jewish scientists who fled Nazi Germany would work on the Manhattan Project. They knew how important it was to beat Hitler to getting nuclear bombs first.
The mushroom cloud of the first test of a hydrogen bomb, "Ivy Mike", as photographed on Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, in 1952, by a member of the United States Air Force's Lookout Mountain.(photo credit: Photographic Squadron/File Photo)ByBARBARA SOFER