The ghost of physicist Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), who led the development of the U.S. atomic bomb, is the main character ...

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Eighty years after the first test, why was there so little dissent at Los Alamos — and what does it mean today?

Oppenheimer was first a brilliant scientist, then a war hero, then a political traitor, then a nobody, then a martyr, now a ...

Many narrators continue to portray Oppenheimer as the father of the atomic bomb. But crediting him was part of a strategy to make nuclear weapons look like an unambiguous force of good—not of evil.

Benny Safdie portrayed scientist Edward Teller in 2023's "Oppenheimer," but what happened to the physicist and chemical ...

Robert Oppenheimer's brother has long deserved a biography of his own. Now he has one, by the respected science writer K.C. Cole. Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens tells the story, from the ...

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New ...

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In recent months, nuclear weapons have reemerged in global headlines. Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan approached the brink of a full-scale war, a confrontation that could have become an ...

As youngsters at the new Egremont School in 1952, we had fire drills a few times a year. Fortunately, there was never a real ...