My grandfather J. Robert Oppenheimer shared the first principle of nuclear weapons: The only safety from them is in ...

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.

J. Robert Oppenheimer led the development of the world’s first nuclear bomb: the atomic bomb. A weapon that devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But he was famously opposed ...

Jack Quaid recalls the unique compliment he got from director Christopher Nolan for one Oppenheimer scene in which he plays a background role.

Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project mastermind who helped develop the atomic bomb. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert ...

He was a man of contradictions: a brilliant physicist, fuelled by self-loathing; a student of philosophy and mysticism, who longed to be an all-American hero. He was responsible for building the most ...

When it comes to the actual blueprint for and building of the atomic bomb, Einstein wasn't tangibly ... the Institute for Advanced Study with J. Robert Oppenheimer (second on the right).

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 ...

At the press conference in Paris, Christopher Nolan hailed the performances of his actors and said, “I think you’re going to be as impressed with them as I have been. It’s an intense ...

(The 2006 book The Bomb in the Basement by Michael Karpin ... s interest in Israel was more than a passing fancy. Perhaps J. Robert Oppenheimer was not as estranged from his people as thought.

We look at prior dramatizations of this very complicated man—including one wherein J. Robert Oppenheimer ... los-alamos-lab-where-robert-oppenheimer-created-atomic-bomb-180982336/) or in the ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer, atomic physicist and head of the Manhattan Project, in 1944. He played a critical role in developing the first nuclear weapons as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project.