Yet, MAD still dominates countries’ nuclear thinking. Opinion: Our nuclear weapons are much more powerful than Oppenheimer's ...

One of the blockbuster films of 2023 “Oppenheimer,” told the dramatic story of the development of the atomic bomb and the physicist ... aimed at the conning tower. Thinking he was under ...

Cillian Murphy plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the atomic bomb," in the 2023 film Stephanie Kaloi is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

After the first atomic bomb explosion (seen here from 10,000 yards away, in a time series from .006 seconds to .081 seconds after detonation), Oppenheimer recalled, "a few people laughed ...

Robert Oppenheimer, played by Murphy, the scientist who famously led the Manhattan Project — the effort to create an atomic bomb during World War II. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's ...

The first trailer for 'Oppenheimer,' Christopher Nolan's film about “the father of the atomic bomb,” was released over the weekend. “We imagine a future, and our imaginings horrify us ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer led the development of the world’s first nuclear bomb: the atomic bomb. A weapon that devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But he was famously opposed ...

Charles Oppenheimer speaking in Tokyo on June 3. Robert Oppenheimer, widely known as the "father of the atomic bomb," was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, where he oversaw the Manhattan ...

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 ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer, atomic physicist and head of the Manhattan Project, in 1944. He played a critical role in developing the first nuclear weapons as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project.