Jack Quaid recalls the unique compliment he got from director Christopher Nolan for one Oppenheimer scene in which he plays a ...

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.

Many hope it will answer a question that has long divided Americans and the country’s understanding of its history: Who exactly was J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb?

He was a man of contradictions: a brilliant physicist, fuelled by self-loathing; a student of philosophy and mysticism, who longed to be an all-American hero. He was responsible for building the most ...

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit ... Leslie Groves and American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. You might recognize Oppenheimer's name from Christopher ...

At the press conference in Paris, Christopher Nolan hailed the performances of his actors and said, “I think you’re going to be as impressed with them as I have been. It’s an intense ...

A grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” has visited Hiroshima and urged Japan to defuse tensions among the world’s leading nuclear powers. “The tension that ...

We look at prior dramatizations of this very complicated man—including one wherein J. Robert Oppenheimer ... los-alamos-lab-where-robert-oppenheimer-created-atomic-bomb-180982336/) or in the ...