The 2023 summer blockbuster titled Oppenheimer focuses on the life story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist who became known as the “father of the atomic bomb.” The film, which is based on the 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, shines a light on Oppenheimer’s career and ...
J. Robert Oppenheimer was the great nuclear physicist, “father of the atomic bomb,” and is now the subject of a blockbuster biopic. But Oppenheimer always despaired about the nuclear arms race triggered by his creation. So the approaching 78th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing invites us to ask how far we’ve come — or haven’t ...
When Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan during the Second World War, the U.S. administration wanted retribution. It set out to create the most powerful weapon known to humanity, the nuclear bomb. The man who was tasked with its creation, Dr. Julius Robert Oppenheimer, was not just a theoretical physicist, but he was also deeply ...
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