On July 16, 1945, at exactly 5:29:45 a.m., the world entered the atomic age ... Leslie Groves and American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. You might recognize Oppenheimer's name from Christopher ...

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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.

He was a man of contradictions: a brilliant physicist, fuelled by self-loathing; a student of philosophy and mysticism, who longed to be an all-American hero. He was responsible for building the most ...

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 ...

When it comes to the actual blueprint for and building of the atomic bomb, Einstein wasn't tangibly ... Institute for Advanced Study with J. Robert Oppenheimer (second on the right).

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 ...

However, one hibakusha atomic bomb survivor noted that the titular character is devastated “enough” by the horror of his own creation. The film follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer ...

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 ...

At the press conference in Paris, Christopher Nolan hailed the performances of his actors and said, “I think you’re going to be as impressed with them as I have been. It’s an intense ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who led the U.S. effort to create an atomic bomb during World War II. Speaking with PEOPLE for this week's issue, Downey, 58, said of his Oppenheimer ...