You may have already watched Christopher Nolan's blockbuster on the atomic bomb, but now you can read a first-hand account of the Manhattan Project ... including J. Robert Oppenheimer and Nobel ...

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 ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer was an immensely complex figure, ... 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." ...

"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 ...

A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico during World War II.

The movie focuses on J. Robert Oppenheimer ... code-named the Manhattan Project. But in reality "Oppenheimer and Einstein were not friends," nuclear-weapons historian Alex Wellerstein told ...

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 ...

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 ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was an American theoretical physicist. Oppenheimer was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project and therefore responsible for the research ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a theoretical physicist. During World War II, he served as director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory, where he led the effort to develop the world’s ...