Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb? Oppenheimer’s name has become “a metaphor for mass death beneath a mushroom cloud,” in the words of Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin ...

Nonetheless, the subject of Nolan’s film remains an enduring enigma. Why did the obviously brilliant Robert Oppenheimer so ...

There’s a perfect TV series for those who loved Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, and it’s streaming on multiple platforms. Manhattan aired two seasons in 2014 and 2015, chronicling the real-life ...

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 ...

His “Oppenheimer” character Lewis Strauss is central to one of the movie’s two main story lines, where the man who engineered J. Robert Oppenheimer’s political downfall gets his just due ...

Cillian Murphy’s dedication to Oppenheimer went beyond acting—he learned 30,000 words of Dutch, followed a brutal diet, and ...

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.

The movie focuses on J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the assembly and testing of the first-ever atomic bomb at Los Alamos in New Mexico. In several scenes, the physicist, who is becoming the ...

The grandson of Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who led the United States' development of nuclear bombs during World War Two, spoke in the country attacked with those weapons and called on the ...

Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures In Christopher Nolan’s new film, “Oppenheimer,” Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who oversaw the Manhattan Project ...

The film, directed by British filmmaker Christopher Nolan, follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the U.S. physicist who led the Manhattan Project to develop the world’s first ...

When Christopher Nolan handed Robert Downey Jr. the script for Oppenheimer, it wasn’t just another Hollywood read. It was practically a magic trick. Printed on red paper with black ink ...