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 ...

It's time for a quick history lesson about Einstein's misunderstood involvement with the atomic bomb, his relationship with Oppenheimer, and why it was so important for Nolan to include him in the ...

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 ...

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 ...