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 ...

Christopher Nolan's film focuses on physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), who led the race to develop the atomic bomb, although the effects on the people of Japan are not depicted.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The “father of the atomic bomb” thought the only effective way to control it was through a global federal republican government. Blink and you’ll miss it. In a scene in the new Oppenheimer film set ...

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

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 ...