Oppenheimer was aware that most of his fellow scientists favored a technical demonstration test of the bomb on a remote area as a warning shot to the Japanese. Another brief scene in the film depicts ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the former director of Los Alamos Laboratory where the first atomic bomb was designed, squelched a petition from fellow scientists asking that the bomb not be dropped on Japan.

Eighty years after the first atomic bomb was detonated in New Mexico, we're still feeling the political and scientific ...

Oppenheimer started collaborating with physicist Ernest Lawrence on questions of atomic bomb development early in 1941. In the spring of that year, the Roosevelt administration created a committee ...

I hate the weapon Oppenheimer unleashed on the world, but I might not have written this sentence without it or without him. Advertisement The 78th anniversary of The Bomb drop is Aug 6.

“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds,” said J. Robert Oppenheimer so famously after watching his brainchild, the first atomic bomb, explode in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945.

For the majority of Oppenheimer, Robert was working on building the atomic bomb, the world's first nuclear weapon.Years after his career as a theoretical physicist had ended, however, the United ...

By 1943, however, Oppenheimer’s support for Communist Party causes shifted — evidently, as he realized the enormity of his mission to produce an atomic bomb. That year, Oppenheimer helped U.S ...

I hate the weapon Oppenheimer unleashed on the world, but I might not have written this sentence without it or without him. The 78th anniversary of The Bomb drop is Aug 6.

Today, the ethical debate surrounding the bomb remains undimmed. But even if a war involving a nuclear power hadn’t erupted in Europe in 2022, Nolan believes “Oppenheimer” contains crossover ...

The new film Oppenheimer tells the story of the brilliant physicist who oversaw the construction of the first atomic bomb. Cillian Murphy plays J. Robert Oppenheimer at various stages in his ...

Oppenheimer is known worldwide for his leadership in the development of the atomic bombs that ended World War II in 1945. But the direct impacts of “the father of the atomic bomb” on Oak Ridge ...