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 ...

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 ...

Robert Oppenheimer had a leading role in developing the atomic bomb, changing the course of World War II Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan's sweeping new biographical thriller about the "father of ...

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Overseeing the project was US Brig. Gen. Leslie Groves and American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. You might recognize Oppenheimer's name from Christopher Nolan's 2023 blockbuster movie.

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.

The movie focuses on J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the assembly and testing of the first-ever atomic bomb at Los Alamos in New Mexico. In several scenes, the physicist, who is becoming the ...

You know what I mean? It's just a form of expression. Expression, in the eyes of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who created the atom bomb but never controlled it. Cillian Murphy: I remember ...

Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures In Christopher Nolan’s new film, “Oppenheimer,” Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who oversaw the Manhattan Project ...

A grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” has visited Hiroshima and urged Japan to defuse tensions among the world’s leading nuclear powers. “The tension that ...

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