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====Oppenheimer recruits scientists to Los Alamos====
[[File:Robert_Oppenheimer_1946.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px300px|Robert Oppenheimer 1946]]
Oppenheimer had a chance to display his persuasive abilities early when he had to convince scientists, many of them already deeply involved in war-related research in university laboratories, to join his new organization. Complicating his task were initial plans to operate Los Alamos as a military laboratory. Oppenheimer accepted Groves's rationale for this arrangement but feared that the military chain of command was ill-suited to scientific decision making and soon found that scientists objected to working as commissioned officers.
