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 ...

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 ...

Robert Oppenheimer had a leading role in developing the atomic bomb, changing the course of World War II Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan's sweeping new biographical thriller about the "father of ...

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.

The movie focuses on J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the assembly and testing of the first-ever atomic bomb at Los Alamos in New Mexico. In several scenes, the physicist, who is becoming the ...

Robert Oppenheimer in "Oppenheimer." After spending six months getting ready both physically and mentally, he says he put all he learned in the back of his mind and acted on instinct. During a ...

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 ...

The film, directed by British filmmaker Christopher Nolan, follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the U.S. physicist who led the Manhattan Project to develop the world’s first ...