J. Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York in 1904. He was the son of first-generation Jewish immigrants who came to America ...

I was promised cherry blossoms if I came to Tokyo,” joked Professor Peter Feaver on a chilly March Friday to a room full of ...

Frum: As I record this episode in late April 2025, the United States is gripped by an outbreak of measles. More than 800 ...

And Harry Truman, when he was president ... The success in building the atomic bomb under Oppenheimer was in large part due to those émigrés. The one person that jumps out to me is Enrico ...

A surprised vice-president, Harry S. Truman, was inaugurated president in the Cabinet ... its giant plume leading its chief, J. Robert Oppenheimer, to invoke the Bhagavad Gita’s “I am become Death.” ...

Robert Oppenheimer. “Cowboy boots and all ... On the evening of August 14, President Harry S. Truman told reporters at the White House that Japan had surrendered. That was the last time ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific director of ... reported when Koval received his gold star. In 1949, President Harry Truman calmly apprised the American public of the Soviets' test.

The destruction deeply affected Oppenheimer, who told President Harry Truman that he felt personally responsible for the tragedy. He later opposed the creation of an even more powerful hydrogen bomb.