Oppenheimer is widely regarded as the father of the atomic bomb, but he didn’t do it alone. Scores of scientists were exiled from Germany, as anti-Jewish laws proliferated. America welcomed many of ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Frank Rose, who served as the no. 2 at the Energy Department's nuclear security agency until April of last year, is suing a ...

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.

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

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