It presents a new lens in which to consider one of the most well-known events in the US—but Oppenheimer is not the only way to access the memory of this history. Manhattan Project National ...

When he was named the director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory, J. Robert Oppenheimer was an improbable choice for the most important job in America. At the time, he was a 38 ...

He did not push back on the decision, later hiring Serber to work on the Manhattan Project. The Nazi effect Until the 1930s, Oppenheimer was resolutely indifferent to politics. Though he studied ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who oversaw the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Naum Kazhdan/The New York Times The movie is based on “American Prometheus: The Triumph ...

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...

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 ...

U.S. theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) led the Manhattan Project, America’s wartime atomic bomb development initiative. He is also the main character of “Oppenheimer ...

The implication that the Nazis could develop extremely powerful weapons prompted President Roosevelt to establish the Manhattan Project in 1941. In June 1942, Robert Oppenheimer was appointed its ...

The clock was initially set at seven minutes to midnight and has moved 25 times since then. It can move backwards and ...

In reality, Oppenheimer consulted Arthur Compton, who was directing the University of Chicago efforts of the Manhattan Project. "I shifted that to Einstein," Nolan told the Times. "Einstein is the ...

Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the U.S. physicist who led the Manhattan Project to develop the world’s first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The film shows the clandestine project ...