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 proposal to rename a New York street after the so-called father of the atomic bomb is raising eyebrows ... “Well it turns ...

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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J. Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project. During the World War II-era project, scientists created the world's first atomic bomb. Oppenheimer had ...

Today’s tech titans have a chutzpah reminiscent of the scientists behind the atomic bomb.

Show more German-born physicist Klaus Fuchs played a key role in the development of the first atomic bomb during World ... was led by scientist J Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos in the US.

The 8th of May 1945, Germany surrenders. VE – Victory in Europe – was complete. But the Second World War was still raging in the Pacific. To end it, the most powerful weapon the world had ever ...