A proposal to rename a New York street after the so-called father of the atomic bomb is raising eyebrows.Long Island’s Frank ...

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 ...

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

I remember the government conducted Civil Defense drills in my school. We were told to climb under our school desks, duck down, and cover our heads. We might have survived a bomb blast but the ...

Most of them were in a program designed to train radiation-control technicians to work at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the birthplace of the atomic ... World War—J. Robert Oppenheimer ...

The researcher, who teaches at Columbia University, has been promoting the new National Center for Neurotechnology in his ...

The film follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the U.S. physicist who led the Manhattan Project to develop the world's first atomic bomb during World War II. Although the project was ...

Proving skeptics wrong, he shared a Nobel Prize in 2013 for using computers to better understand chemical reactions and ...

Like fellow directors Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, and Wes Anderson, Christopher Nolan is a filmmaker whose name ...

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 ...