Editor’s note: This essay is paired with a second essay that offers a contrasting perspective about J. Robert Oppenheimer. On August 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb exploded above the city of ...
The aircraft flew toward Novaya Zemlya, a Russian archipelago located within the Arctic Circle. The Tu-95V carried an RDS-220 ...
It was two years ago that the Oscar-winning blockbuster 'Oppenheimer' sent the message that it was the Americans, or rather one American in particular, who was responsible for the atomic explosion ...