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 ...

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 ...

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

After leading the creation of the world’s first atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer was tormented by a chilling possibility: that his invention could one day destroy humanity itself. This video ...

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 ...

After WWII as the Cold War escalated, tensions in the American scientific community culminated in the 1954 security hearing of J Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the atomic bomb". Physicist Edward ...

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