Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" looks at the life of the man who built the atomic bomb. J. Robert Oppenheimer led the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos laboratory from 1942. Although the scientist ...

Oppenheimer’s childhood doesn’t play out on screen in the movie, but his upbringing contributed to views he espouses throughout the film. He was born in 1904 into a wealthy secular Jewish family in ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Robert Oppenheimer named the test site “Trinity.” The name was inspired by a John Donne poem, which ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer ultimately came to be known as “the father of the atomic bomb” – a weapon that changed the course of history, from its nascent tests in the vast plains of New Mexico to its ...