"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit ... Leslie Groves and American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. You might recognize Oppenheimer's name from Christopher ...

PRINCETON, N.J. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb who was later branded a security risk, died Saturday night of cancer. He was 62. Oppenheimer who was director of the Los ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer led the development of the world’s first nuclear bomb: the atomic bomb. A weapon that devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But he was famously opposed ...

Robert Oppenheimer ... After the war, Oppenheimer chaired the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. He opposed developing an even more powerful hydrogen bomb. When President Truman finally approved ...

The Oscar-winning film centers heavily on J. Robert Oppenheimer and follows the physicist’s journey in developing the atomic bomb for the United States. It does not directly show the fallout of ...

It seems appropriate for the film, which tracks J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) as he and the other members of the Manhattan Project race to develop the bomb by constructing the Los Alamos ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American Jewish physicist who was officially credited with being the “father of the atomic bomb,” died at his home here last night at the age of 62.

The movie focuses on J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the assembly ... "Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in developing an atomic bomb, I would have done nothing." ...

The first trailer for 'Oppenheimer,' Christopher ... the first successful nuclear bomb. The site was called Los Alamos, and the leader of those scientists, J. Robert Oppenheimer, guided his ...

Understanding how their relationship came to be, as well as the role Einstein's theory of special relativity in physics played in the development of the atomic bomb, will help viewers better ...

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 ...