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 ...

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 ...

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a masterly vision of Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s American Prometheus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer.However, it is a biopic, not ...

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 ...

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

The movie hints at Oppenheimer’s concern—that the H-bomb project would divert resources from the fission-based nuclear weapons he preferred to build—but sometimes obscures it. Nolan’s Oppenheimer ...

Once it was known the Nazis were working on an atomic bomb, did American scientists have any choice but to do the same? Were Gen. Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project, and J. Robert ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer death In 1967, Oppenheimer died in Princeton, New Jersey, of throat cancer, according to the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History.

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 ...

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 ...