Oppenheimer is widely regarded as the father of the atomic bomb, but he didn’t do it alone. Scores of scientists were exiled ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb? Oppenheimer’s name has become “a metaphor for mass death beneath a mushroom cloud,” in the words of Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin ...

Robert Oppenheimer's name has become almost synonymous with the atomic bomb, and also with the dilemma facing scientists when the interests of the nation and their own conscience collide.

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The ancient Irish name seemed to be on everyone's lips as the film "Oppenheimer" became a blockbuster ... but it was the epic drama of the atomic bomb that ignited a star. As we told you last ...

Show more German-born physicist Klaus Fuchs played a key role in the development of the first atomic bomb during World ... was led by scientist J Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos in the US.

The 8th of May 1945, Germany surrenders. VE – Victory in Europe – was complete. But the Second World War was still raging in the Pacific. To end it, the most powerful weapon the world had ever ...

Robert Oppenheimer in "Oppenheimer." After spending six months getting ready both physically and mentally, he says he put all he learned in the back of his mind and acted on instinct. During a ...