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'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.

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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 ...

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, the American Jewish physicist who was officially credited with being the “father of the atomic bomb,” died at his home here last night at the age of 62.

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 ...

PRINCETON, N.J. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb who was later branded a security risk, died Saturday night of cancer. He was 62. Oppenheimer who was director of the Los ...

The award-winning Hollywood film about atomic bomb scientist Robert Oppenheimer is drawing mixed reactions in Japan since opening two weeks ago. The three-hour drama debuted eight months earlier ...

Robert Oppenheimer, who was instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb, was released in 2023. The movie was met with critical acclaim for its complex portrayal of the renowned physicist as ...