Christopher Nolan knew that the scene of the Trinity test in his epic film Oppenheimer had to be a showstopper. After all, the real Trinity test was the detonation of the first atomic bomb—and ...

Beneath the cherry blossoms of Hiroshima, memories of devastation linger — but so does hope. This exclusive extract from Six Minutes to Winter, Mark Lynas’s urgent new book on the threat of nuclear ...

The Trinity test scene alone was heart-poundingly ... but the idea was conveyed through Oppenheimer’s visions of his audience being decimated by the bomb’s effects—peeling skin, bodies ...

Today Alex Wellerstein, an historian of nuclear weaponry, breaks down the science behind Christopher Nolan’s 2023 film “Oppenheimer.” Club now prepared to sell £50m star to Tottenham amid ...

Robert Oppenheimer, left, and Brigadier General Leslie Groves inspect the site of the Trinity atomic bomb test a few weeks after the 16th July detonation. Reprieved by Groves, Oppenheimer got to ...

Director Christopher Nolan pulled off an amazing trick in Oppenheimer. With his trademark use of time in a movie, he managed ...

Cillian Murphy, has portrayed quiet men archetypes on screen but he did it so well that these characters often came off as ticking time bombs: quiet but intelligent, quiet but resillient, quiet but hi ...

After the first atomic bomb explosion ... Robert Oppenheimer as its scientific director. Just 27 months later, Oppenheimer and his colleagues were ready to test an atomic weapon.

I was standing at Trinity, ground zero, where the first atomic bomb exploded at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. Seismographs in Tucson detected the explosion from 280 miles away. The test bomb ...

Three years earlier, the boy wonder, then 23, had designed the world’s first hydrogen bomb, which brought the fury of the stars to Earth. In a test ... Robert Oppenheimer, who during World ...

The Sunshine Hills area of Laurel County was hit hard by severe storms and a presumed tornado early Saturday, May 17, 2025, leaving several people dead and much of a neighborhood destroyed. The ...