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 ...

On the big screen, the movie Oppenheimer explored a threat ... the emotionally close ties between the brothers (Robert—the “father of the atom bomb”—and his younger brother, Frank ...

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 ...

The film about atomic bomb pioneer J. Robert Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan, is expected to win numerous Oscars at next week’s Academy Awards, having already grossed nearly $1 ...

Charles Oppenheimer speaking in Tokyo on June 3. Robert Oppenheimer, widely known as the "father of the atomic bomb," was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, where he oversaw the Manhattan ...

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 ...

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 ...

Murphy has worked non-stop for nearly 30 years, but it was the epic drama of the atomic bomb ... in the eyes of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who created the atom bomb but never controlled ...