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Oppenheimer was first a brilliant scientist, then a war hero, then a political traitor, then a nobody, then a martyr, now a ...
Many narrators continue to portray Oppenheimer as the father of the atomic bomb. But crediting him was part of a strategy to make nuclear weapons look like an unambiguous force of good—not of evil.
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We’re still living an atomic nightmare
Eighty years after the first test, why was there so little dissent at Los Alamos — and what does it mean today?
Benny Safdie portrayed scientist Edward Teller in 2023's "Oppenheimer," but what happened to the physicist and chemical ...
A 21st-century archivist should be commended for the revival of Radha’s inspiring story, rediscovered from forgotten letters, ...
Brig. Gen. Leslie Groves: After arriving at the Alamogordo base camp on July 15, a brief review of the situation with Oppenheimer revealed that we might be in trouble. The bomb had been assembled and ...
When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New ...
Robert Downey Jr might be more associated with comic books, but these five traditional books had a significant impact on him.