NAGASAKI--“Oppenheimer,” the blockbuster biopic of the season about “the father of the atomic bomb” that received a delayed release in Japan, was bound to be dissected by critics looking ...

Related stories But in a later interview about the decision to drop the bomb, Oppenheimer said that at the moment of the explosion he thought of a line from the Hindu scripture Bhagavad-Gita ...

Robert Oppenheimer's name has become almost synonymous with the atomic bomb, and also with the dilemma facing scientists when the interests of the nation and their own conscience collide.

Robert Oppenheimer. As the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory in the 1940s, the physicist is known as the "father of the atomic bomb." Though mainly focused on a handful of ...

[Teller had a long and strained relationship with J. Robert Oppenheimer, who had directed development of the Atomic Bomb at Los Alamos in the 1940s. A staunch anticommunist, Teller had ...

under the direction of Oppenheimer. On 16 July 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was tested at the Trinity site in the New Mexico desert. Less than a month later the US dropped an atomic bomb on ...

Another added: "I saw the movie and felt that the United States had a choice of not using the nuclear bomb after becoming a nuclear nation." The film follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project. During the World War II-era project, scientists created the world's first atomic bomb. Oppenheimer ...

Well, a mini bomb. So the "Oppenheimer" team had to figure out how to make something that mimicked an atomic explosion when filming their recreation of the Trinity Test, which was the first time a ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project. During the World War II-era project, scientists created the world's first atomic bomb. Oppenheimer had ...