Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb? Oppenheimer’s name has become “a metaphor for mass death beneath a mushroom cloud,” in the words of Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin ...

The most dangerous object ever was made by accident and killed its makers. If you’re familiar with the Oscar award -winning film Oppenheimer, you’ll know that the Manhattan Project was a group of ...

Robert Oppenheimer, often called “the father of the atomic bomb” for leading the Manhattan Project. “What were the Japanese thinking, carrying out the attack on Pearl Harbor, starting a war ...

or bomb specific populations,” she explains. “Most people think of this as just another technology and, and not as a new species, which is the way you should think about it,” says Professor ...

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.

"Oppenheimer" has been popular among young people, especially those in their 20s. A high school student in Hiroshima says he felt the need to revise his understanding of the nuclear bomb.

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 ...

For someone who wasn't involved in the race to develop the first atomic bomb, Albert Einstein plays a surprisingly significant role in the Christopher Nolan film "Oppenheimer." The movie focuses on J.

Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer returned to theaters and is set to overtake Zack Snyder's Batman v. Superman as it climbs toward $1 billion.

Charles Oppenheimer speaking in Tokyo on June 3. Robert Oppenheimer, widely known as the "father of the atomic bomb," was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, where he oversaw the Manhattan ...

Like Oppenheimer, Manhattan explores the moral dilemma attached to the bomb’s existence and use. All of these plot points — real and fictional — mesh incredibly well together, generating an ...