Robert Oppenheimer,” the authoritative 2005 biography by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. Eddie Adams/Associated Press The book took 25 years to write. The authors amassed an extraordinary amount ...

A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico during World War II.

Sherwin's American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the book on which the film is based, it's noted by Oppenheimer's father, Julius, that the pair often had fleeting ...

Robert Oppenheimer as its scientific director. Just 27 months later, Oppenheimer and his colleagues were ready to test an atomic weapon. Everyone at Los Alamos in a position to have an informed ...

Robert Oppenheimer. I was wrong. Both books, and the movie, mention Oppenheimer’s disinterest or, at best, his ambivalence ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a theoretical physicist. During World War II, he served as director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory, where he led the effort to develop the world’s ...

Oppenheimer relentlessly chips away at the veneer of the Kennedy mystique in this gossipy, sometimes shocking biography of Ethel Skakel Kennedy (born in 1928), widow of Attorney General Robert ...

Almost immediately after he landed on the list of 2024 Oscar winners for his transformative performance in Oppenheimer, Robert Downey Jr. is transforming again for the book-to-screen adaptation of ...