Naomi Alderman explores the multifaceted mind of J Robert Oppenheimer, scientific lead on the Manhattan Project, a vast, top secret scheme to build the world's first atomic bombs. Show more Naomi ...

The Manhattan Project’s leader, J. Robert Oppenheimer, was a learned man. When he witnessed the first successful atomic test, he quoted Chapter 11, Verse 32 of the ancient Hindu text The ...

As recounted in James Kunetka’s The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer — The Unlikely ... appointed as military leader of the Manhattan Project, General Leslie Groves, grew weary ...

Robert Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer is most remembered as the “father of the atomic bomb” and was the physicist in charge of the Manhattan Project, the name given to the top-secret project that ...

Oppenheimer was famously stripped of his AEC security clearance in 1954 when he publicly acknowledged regret for his work as part of Project Manhattan. In July 1945, several scientists wrote a ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer During World War II, he served as director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory, where he led the effort to develop the world’s first nuclear weapons. Latest ...

For years, the story of that name remained untold, for good reason. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research site at Los Alamos, New Mexico, named the site ...

A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico during World War II.

Oppenheimer, then 38, had been tapped to lead a facility that government documents called Project Y. The physicists working there were part of the ultra-secret Manhattan Project, and they had one ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project mastermind who helped develop the atomic bomb. For Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, the world is about to change. On Monday, Universal Pictures released ...