Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project mastermind who helped develop the atomic bomb. For Christopher ... and quantum physics to the Trinity test itself, to recreating, with my team, Los ...

Known as the Trinity test, the first atomic bomb was tested on July 16, 1945, in the Jornada del Muerto desert — more than 200 miles south of Los Alamos. Oppenheimer chose the code name ...

Even without an IMAX theater, the Trinity Test scene will still be jaw ... aided in the construction of the atomic bomb in World War II. Nolan depicts Oppenheimer as a conflicted hero who wrestles ...

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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.