Robert Oppenheimer,” the authoritative 2005 biography by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. Eddie Adams/Associated Press The book took 25 years to write. The authors amassed an extraordinary amount ...

Robert Oppenheimer's name has become almost synonymous with the atomic bomb, and also with the dilemma facing scientists when the interests of the nation and their own conscience collide.

My grandfather J. Robert Oppenheimer shared the first principle of nuclear weapons: The only safety from them is in ...

Most people were silent." Los Alamos National Laboratory The top-secret laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, opened in April 1943 with J. Robert Oppenheimer as its scientific director.

A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico during World War II.

Cillian Murphy plays J. Robert Oppenheimer ... Japan. In the 2012 book Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center, author Jay Monk wrote that on Aug. 6, 1945, (when the first bomb was dropped ...

Sherwin's American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the book on which the film is based, it's noted by Oppenheimer's father, Julius, that the pair often had fleeting ...

His latest epic undertaking, Oppenheimer, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, attracted one of the starriest casts ...

I thought I knew almost everything there was to know about J. Robert Oppenheimer. I was wrong. Both books, and the movie, ...

Four years after directing the construction of the world’s first atomic bomb, Oppenheimer offers advice on advancing peace in the nuclear age. J. Robert Oppenheimer February 1, 1949 ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was an American theoretical physicist. Oppenheimer was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project and therefore responsible for the research ...