Answer: Alexander did expect a long life.
Robert Oppenheimer, was brought in for the Manhattan Project. Top Secret, they were worried about him at first, but realized he was a genius. What is the Manhattan Project? The race to build the world's first atomic bomb during World War 2. Robert Oppenheimer was called in to be the main man to basically make the atomic bomb real.
The government hid the fact of how bad it really was
