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 ...

Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer follows its titular subject — before & after he created the atomic bomb. We break down the ...

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 ...

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.

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.