J. Robert Oppenheimer

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.

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.

Eighty years after the bomb, scientists still grapple with nuclear legacy. Some seek atonement, others insist it’s no longer their burden.

The men who set off the nuclear age tell the tale in their own words.

Trump did not create this situation, but he has accelerated its centrifugal forces.

Declassified documents show atomic testing in New Mexico distributed radioactive matter to an extent that the scientists at Los Alamos were ill-prepared for.

How the novelist turned the violence and randomness of war into a cosmic joke.