J. Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York in 1904. He was the son of first-generation Jewish immigrants who came to America from Germany. By the age of 9, he had read literature and philosophy in ...

A pivotal scene in the explosive hit biopic and Best Picture winner, "Oppenheimer," involves America's top scientists ...

During World War II, as Germany, Russia, and the US raced to build nuclear weapons, America launched the Manhattan Project.

Barbara Scollin writes about her great-uncle's friendship with J. Robert Oppenheimer and the issues pertaining to security and Oppie.

Christopher Nolan is one of the most successful modern directors, but has one film that should be deleted from cinema forever.

Richard Garwin was a particle physicist and inventor with a lifelong mission to nudge the US government towards rational, ...

A Malayali physicist quietly broke global barriers in science, from Madras to Princeton and beyond, yet her story remained in ...

Here is how Oppenheimer tells the story in his letter to the AEC: “No serious controversy arose about the Super [the H-bomb] until the Soviet explosion of the atomic bomb in the autumn of 1949.

WASHINGTON — A former top Energy Department official — who helped posthumously restore the security clearance of atomic bomb architect J. Robert Oppenheimer — was forced out of his job in a ...

Mare Island was one of only two public shipyards in America that built nuclear submarines during the Cold War. It hosted an ...