Cillian Murphy plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the atomic bomb," in the 2023 film Stephanie Kaloi is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

Robert Oppenheimer giving the BBC Reith Lectures ... and locked naked in an ice house When he was 14, Oppenheimer’s parents sent him to summer camp. He wrote to his parents that the other ...

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.