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

On July 16, 1945, at exactly 5:29:45 a.m., the world entered the atomic age, with the successful testing of the most powerful weapon known to man. "Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot ...

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 ...

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The pioneering physicist’s moral worldview and politics were shaped by a complicated relationship with his Jewishness and a hatred of the Nazis. (JTA) — Friday is not just “Barbie” release ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer led the development of the world’s first nuclear bomb: the atomic bomb. A weapon that devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But he was famously opposed ...

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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 ...

HIROSHIMA—The film “Oppenheimer,” a biopic about the man known as “the father of the atomic bomb,” opened in the United States to rave reviews in July but hasn’t been shown in Japan ...

On Monday, Universal Pictures released the official trailer for Christopher Nolan's next movie, which stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project mastermind who helped ...

Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh and Robert Downey Jr. star in the new film, out July 21 Nigel Smith is the Senior Movies News Editor for PEOPLE. He is an experienced culture ...