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 ...

One of the blockbuster films of 2023 “Oppenheimer,” told the dramatic story of the development of the atomic bomb and the physicist who headed those efforts, J. Robert Oppenheimer. But despite ...

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.

In a statement outlining the change, the Board highlighted three main reasons for “moving the Doomsday Clock from 90 seconds ...

It’s a terrific movie, historically accurate and thought-provoking. The film’s recurring theme is Oppenheimer’s nightmarish ...

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ puts clock at 89 seconds from nuclear apocalypse, closer to ‘midnight’ than even during the ...

Dropping the atom bomb changed the world for ever and nobody thought about the consequences harder than its creator. A few weeks afterwards, Oppenheimer resigned his post on the nuclear programme.

Cillian Murphy’s dedication to playing J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer went so deep, it literally left his brain “too ...