Robert Oppenheimer’s moonshot project to build an atomic bomb in a top-secret lab in the New Mexico desert—and his lifelong qualms about the nuclear age he ushered in. Did the legendary ...

Robert Oppenheimer as its scientific director ... That was both a matter of pride and a heavy burden for "the father of the atomic bomb." Another Los Alamos scientist recalled that Oppenheimer ...

Robert Oppenheimer’s wife Kitty — can the world ever forgive the scientist for his role in the atomic bomb? Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer follows the titular character ...

Robert Oppenheimer ... setting,” Richard Rhodes wrote in his definitive history, The Making of the Atomic Bomb. “Single men and women sponsored dorm parties fueled with tanks of punch ...

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 ...

A grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” has visited Hiroshima and urged Japan to defuse tensions among the world’s leading nuclear powers. “The tension that ...

World’s first atomic bomb: 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 ...

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

Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy ... two years after Oppenheimer had created the atomic bomb, and two years after the bomb had been used to destroy Nagasaki and Hiroshima, which controversially ...

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 ...