My grandfather J. Robert Oppenheimer shared the first principle of nuclear weapons: The only safety from them is in ...

Robert Oppenheimer. You might recognize ... America detonated the world's first atomic bomb. The explosion vaporized the steel tower, sent a massive shockwave across the desert sand, and produced ...

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 ...

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.

Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project mastermind who helped develop the atomic bomb. For Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, the world is about to change. On Monday, Universal Pictures released ...

NAGASAKI--“Oppenheimer,” the blockbuster biopic of the season about “the father of the atomic bomb” that received a delayed release in Japan, was bound to be dissected by critics looking ...

Christopher Nolan's epic new film "Oppenheimer" is no mere biopic… nor is it the first attempt to capture the father of the atomic bomb in fiction. We look at prior dramatizations of this very ...

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 ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer, atomic physicist and head of the Manhattan Project, in 1944. He played a critical role in developing the first nuclear weapons as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project.