Aug. 19—Reading Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin's "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer," it's surprising that Chris Nolan's remarkable movie is only three hours ...

How an ancient Greek myth explains our terrifying modern reality. By A.O. Scott Prometheus was the Titan who stole fire from the gods of Olympus and gave it to human beings, setting us on a path ...

In the Netflix series KAOS, premiering Aug. 29, Prometheus—who was famously condemned by Zeus to be forever bound to a cliff and have his infinitely regenerating liver pecked out by an eagle ...

According to Greek myth, the titan Prometheus sculpted humans out of clay and shielded them from mockery by the gods, who found them wanting for not being able to fly like birds, not having scales ...

Nolan is joined by Kai Bird, who won a Pulitzer for his work on American Prometheus, a project that took him and his co-author 25 years to complete. Nolan explains why, when negotiating with Universal ...

Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is loosely based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin's American Prometheus and even subtly highlights why the notable physicist was given that title. The Oscar ...

A Greek mythology obsession is basically a middle school rite of passage (right up there with the classic Ancient Egypt hyper-fixation). There’s something larger-than-life about Greek myths that ...

Netflix's 'KAOS' tells an ancient Greek myth set in the modern-age with Jeff Goldblum as a spiteful Zeus. ... Prometheus is a Titan who worked with Zeus to create humans.

When J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, formally resigned his directorship of the secret Los Alamos laboratory in 1945, he prophesied that "if atomic bombs are to be added as new ...