Robert Oppenheimer helped lead the U.S. effort to build the atomic bomb. But he was almost bounced from the Manhattan Project entirely—why? J. Robert Oppenheimer, often called the 'father of the ...

When the committee recommended deploying the bomb immediately, Oppenheimer notably failed to convey the staunch opposition felt by so many of the Manhattan Project’s scientists. At the time ...

In 1942, Oppenheimer was appointed to be the director of a new weapons laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico and develop an atomic bomb. It was given a code name: the Manhattan Project. Gen.

One day in Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project, a brief, casual moment of carelessness killed one scientist and severely injured another. In this specially illustrated story, the artist and writer Ben ...

When he was named the director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory, J. Robert Oppenheimer was an improbable choice for the most important job in America. At the time, he was a 38 ...

The one thing you need to know about Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is that it moves incredibly fast and covers a lot of ground. For most of its three-hour runtime, the atomic bomb epic ...