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.

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.

Most people were silent." Los Alamos National Laboratory The top-secret laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, opened in April 1943 with J. Robert Oppenheimer as its scientific director.

His latest epic undertaking, Oppenheimer, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, attracted one of the starriest casts ...

Naomi Alderman explores the multifaceted mind of J Robert Oppenheimer, scientific lead on the Manhattan Project, a vast, top secret scheme to build the world's first atomic bombs. Show more Naomi ...

She explores the multifaceted mind of J Robert Oppenheimer, scientific lead on the Manhattan Project – a vast, top-secret scheme to build the world's first atomic bombs. He was a man of ...

As bulldozers arrived on the New Mexico campus, she had her first glimpse of J. Robert Oppenheimer. “Cowboy boots and all,” she wrote, “he hurried in the front door and out the back ...

Four years after directing the construction of the world’s first atomic bomb, Oppenheimer offers advice on advancing peace in the nuclear age. J. Robert Oppenheimer February 1, 1949 ...