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What technical contribution did Niels Bohr make to the plutonium bomb project?
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Niels Bohr made a significant technical contribution to the plutonium bomb project by assisting in the design of the device's initiator.1
While his work at Los Alamos included this specific technical development, his broader role was described by J. Robert Oppenheimer as serving as a scientific father confessor to the younger physicists working on the project.1