Nuclear-weapons physicist Greg Spriggs rates "Oppenheimer" for realism. He explains how accurate Christopher Nolan's recreation of the construction of the first atomic bomb in Los Alamos and the ...

Nuclear physics research is focused on understanding the matter composed of quarks and gluons, which makes up 99% of the mass of the universe. Most of this matter is found at the core of atoms, the ...

Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the ... effort to develop the first nuclear weapons at the secret ...

As Oppenheimer covertly developed the nuclear weapons ... Kenneth Branagh plays one of quantum physics' most foundational minds, Niels Bohr. During World War II, Bohr supported the efforts ...

he alights on the passage that Oppenheimer would later say came to mind when he witnessed the first-ever detonation of a nuclear weapon. In it, Prince Arjuna, overlooking a battlefield ...

We know that Oppenheimer made at least two trips to Israel. One in 1958 to participate in the inauguration of a nuclear physics program at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, and another seven ...

A grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” has visited Hiroshima and urged Japan to defuse tensions among the world’s leading nuclear powers. “The tension that ...

“I don’t hold a grudge against Mr Oppenheimer himself or anything like that. It’s a much bigger issue,” said Yahata, who often speaks on behalf of survivors of the nuclear blasts in the ...