J. Robert Oppenheimer

Japanese were interested when Oppenheimer visited Japan as an honored guest in 1960. Will they be also interested in the Nolan film released today in Japan?

Celebrated and damned as the “father of the atomic bomb,” theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer lived a complicated scientific and political life.

A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent the brothers on diverging paths.

Oppenheimer and the demon heart of power.

What did Truman and Oppenheimer actually say in that room?

On Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”

J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project scientists are a rare example of weapons designers who have gone down in history.

The so-called "father of the bomb" helped bring us prematurely into the age of existential risk.

It turns out there was an "unlikely" chance the first atomic bomb could have ignited the atmosphere — which didn’t stop the Manhattan Project.

The "father of the atomic bomb" has long been misunderstood. Will the new film finally get J. Robert Oppenheimer right?

A-bomb architect “was no Einstein,” historian says, but he did Nobel-level work on black holes.

The inventor of the atomic bomb, the subject of Christopher Nolan’s new film, was the chief celebrity victim of the national trauma known as McCarthyism.

Manhattan Project physicist was infamously stripped of his security clearance in 1954.

A conversation with Louisa Hall about her novel, “Trinity.”

On Cormac McCarthy.

"The Day After Trinity" and "The Strangest Dream" evacuate the mythical tropes of the tortured genius biopic that Hollywood loves to rehearse.

Christopher Nolan's blockbuster has generated a torrent of historical commentary about the birth of nuclear weapons. Is there something missing from the conversation?

Might a world republic provide humanity with the tools to address the climate emergency, runaway artificial intelligence, and new weapons of mass extermination?

The movie has no interest in reducing the atomic bombings to a trivializing, exploitative spectacle, despite what some would want.

Turns out Oppenheimer’s boss lied, repeatedly, about radiation poisoning.