In this except from the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we hear from the people at the historic first test of the atomic ...

Real footage captured of the trinity test leaves viewers divided over the accuracy of the events depicted in Christopher ...

In 1943, a research lab was established in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where scientists gathered to work on the bomb. Oppenheimer was charged with finding a way to bombard neutrons with plutonium and ...

A 21st-century archivist should be commended for the revival of Radha’s inspiring story, rediscovered from forgotten letters, ...

Ford worked on the H-bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico in the early 1950s and knows several people depicted in the new movie "Oppenheimer." Allie Ippolito/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Facebook ...

“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.

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 ...

As the 40 th anniversary of the atom bomb being used on Japan approached in the mid-‘80s, I struck up a conversation about nukes with my father at lunch. Afterall, my father was bobbing in a ...

The movie “Oppenheimer” makes much of the projected tortured soul of Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific genius behind the creation of the atomic bomb. Yet there was no moral ambivalence… ...

The film “Oppenheimer,” which opened Friday, is based on the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man who lead the development of the world’s first atomic bomb. Oppenheimer was a theoretical ...