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 ...

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

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 ...

A Los Alamos home was featured in one of the biggest summer blockbusters. Now, a group is trying to open it up for the public ...

“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 ...

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… ...

Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) eventually is drenched in a wash of white light. “I wanted the brightness to be almost like an X-ray, because you can see and feel it even more when looking at other ...

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 ...