Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the team of brilliant scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, who built the world’s first atomic bomb. It’s not a documentary, but it gets the big historical ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb? Oppenheimer’s name has become “a metaphor for mass death beneath a mushroom cloud,” in the words of Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin ...

HIROSHIMA—The film “Oppenheimer,” a biopic about the man known as “the father of the atomic bomb,” opened in the United States to rave reviews in July but hasn’t been shown in Japan ...

A proposal to rename a New York street after the so-called father of the atomic bomb is raising eyebrows ... “Well it turns ...

Robert Oppenheimer's name has become almost synonymous with the atomic bomb, and also with the dilemma facing scientists when the interests of the nation and their own conscience collide.

I remember the government conducted Civil Defense drills in my school. We were told to climb under our school desks, duck ...

For someone who wasn't involved in the race to develop the first atomic bomb, Albert Einstein plays a surprisingly significant role in the Christopher Nolan film "Oppenheimer." The movie focuses on J.

J. Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project. During the World War II-era project, scientists created the world's first atomic bomb. Oppenheimer had ...

Today’s tech titans have a chutzpah reminiscent of the scientists behind the atomic bomb.

The 8th of May 1945, Germany surrenders. VE – Victory in Europe – was complete. But the Second World War was still raging in the Pacific. To end it, the most powerful weapon the world had ever ...