But despite the Manhattan Project’s success depicted in the film, in his latter years, Oppenheimer became increasingly worried about a nuclear holocaust resulting from the proliferation of these ...

A hard-bitten military man and a free-spirited physicist combined to build the world’s first nuclear weapon. How often in our relationship-obsessed era do we hear the term “but it works”?

On Monday, Universal Pictures released the official trailer for Christopher Nolan's next movie, which stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project mastermind who helped ...

Naomi Alderman explores the multifaceted mind of J Robert Oppenheimer, scientific lead on the Manhattan Project, a vast, top secret scheme to build the world's first atomic bombs. Show more Naomi ...

On July 16, 1945, at exactly 5:29:45 a.m., the world entered the atomic age, with the successful testing of the most powerful weapon known to man. "Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot ...