The definitive telling of that story is Richard Rhodes’ Pulitzer Prize–winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb, first released in 1986. The 800-page tome has become something of a sacred text ...

Here, 12 books to watch if Oppenheimer peaked your interest in the atomic bomb—including the 700-page biography that Nolan based his film on. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J ...

The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, effectively ended WWII, but took thousands of civilian lives. On August 6, 1945, the bomb was dropped on the city.

Few authors have written as insightfully about the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer as Richard Rhodes, whose 1986 book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is widely regarded as the definitive account of ...

James Cameron explains how his upcoming atom bomb movie is different from Oppenheimer, calling Christopher Nolan's film "a ...

Author Richard Rodes wrote the definitive account of the effort to build the bomb with his book, “The Making of the Atomic Bomb.” He doesn’t mention your grandfather.

Cillian Murphy as Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer in a scene from “Oppenheimer,” left, and the real Oppenheimer on the test ground for the atomic bomb near Alamogordo, N.M., on Sept. 9, 1945 ...

In 1945, Hollywood set in motion its first big-budget movie drama about the making and use of the atomic bomb. Almost immediately a competing project emerged (with a screenplay by Ayn Rand, no less).

A public intellectual with a flair for the dramatic, he directed the top-secret lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico, taking the atomic bomb from theoretical possibility to terrifying reality in an ...

Hollywood Flashback: In 1986, ‘The Manhattan Project’ Built a Thriller Around an Atomic Bomb. Like Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer,’ Marshall Brickman’s film chronicled the making of ...

It tells the life story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man known as the “father of the atomic bomb,” and is based on a mammoth, Pulitzer Prize–winning 2005 biography that took 25 years to ...