Remember building model molecules with balls and sticks in chemistry class? You have J. Robert Oppenheimer to thank for that, ...

Charles Oppenheimer knows his family name comes with a heavy responsibility. He's the grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who led the Manhattan Project, becoming the father of the atomic ...

Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" is historically accurate in many ways, but it's still a work of fiction. Here's what's true ...

Prior to 1945, nuclear weapons were just an idea that could be discussed in theoretical physics literature. This changed when ...

"Oppenheimer" contains a scene with the young physicist contemplating murdering his Cambridge tutor, Patrick Blackett. It's ...

After Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer broke records at the box office, James Cameron is working on a nuclear war film of his own — and he’s taking a different approach. While discussing his plan to ...

To the outside world, he was always known as a German Jew, and he always insisted that he was neither German nor Jewish,” ...

Editor’s note: This essay is paired with a second essay that offers a contrasting perspective about J. Robert Oppenheimer. When I was in middle school, I read a lot. Late at night, when I should have ...

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