J. Robert Oppenheimer

American leaders called the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki our 'least abhorrent choice,' but there were alternatives to the nuclear attacks.

There is no acknowledgement in the film of the existence of downwinders from the test, in New Mexico or elsewhere.

Watching 'Oppenheimer' with the author of a definitive account of the Manhattan Project.

Before Christopher Nolan’s "Oppenheimer," the world nearly got Ayn Rand’s "Tribute to Free Enterprise."

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Geronimo, Robert Oppenheimer, Steven Spielberg, and the mysteries of New Mexico's desert.

In 1953, as a political battle raged over the US’s nuclear future, the physicist lost a classified document on an overnight train from Philadelphia to DC.

What was J. Robert Oppenheimer doing with a book about science in early America?

Our launch protocols were designed to bypass checks and balances for a quick retaliation.

Reconsidering the journalistic ethics of a New York Times reporter who chronicled the Manhattan Project from the inside.

Who killed J. Robert Oppenheimer's Communist lover?

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

John Canaday's poems look at nuclear weapons from the intimate perspectives of its developers.

The beauty of the atomic scientists' calculations hid from them the truly Faustian contract they scratched their names to.

In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator Joseph McCarthy upended the nation.

Alicia Puglionesi explores the damage white supremacy did to Native Americans and their land.

Coming from the Congo, I knew where an essential ingredient for atomic bombs was mined, even if everyone else seemed to ignore it.

The Truman administration launched a PR campaign to inflate casualty numbers to justify the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

On this date 78 years ago, the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. Survivors involuntarily provided key medical data for years, without receiving any help.

The “Barbenheimer” double feature captures the dawn of our imperiled era.

Game theory, computers, the atom bomb—these are just a few of things von Neumann played a role in developing, changing the 20th century for better and worse.