With the premiere of Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer in 2023, renewed attention has been paid to the complicated life and legacy of one of history’s most famous scientists. At the Bulletin, the ...

In this except from the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we hear from the people at the historic first test of the atomic ...

So, even though the magazine itself was founded in 1945 by a group of atomic scientists and engineers, with J. Robert Oppenheimer—the director of the Los Alamos laboratory that built the first atomic ...

With the premiere of Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer in 2023, renewed attention has been paid to the complicated life and legacy of one of history’s most famous scientists. At the Bulletin, the ...

On December 16th, the Secretary of the Department of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, issued an order vacating the 1954 Atomic Energy Commission decision that revoked Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security ...

A Princeton physicist argues viewers of Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' must broaden their field of view to understand the issues that J. Robert Oppenheimer confronted for the first time in human ...

Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" is based off the real-life physicist responsible for development of the atomic bomb. Here's what you need to know.

Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" is based off the real-life physicist responsible for development of the atomic bomb. Here's what you need to know.

July 16 is the 80th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb test. At 5:30 a.m. on that date in 1945, 12 young girls attending a summer camp in Ruidoso, New Mexico, were jolted out of their bunks ...

Oppenheimer ’sending leaves its audience pondering a question posed by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer’s wife Kitty — can the world ever forgive the scientist for his role in the atomic bomb ...