The complicated relationship between physicist Leo Szilard, scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves. Assigned to oversee the project, Groves chooses Oppenheimer to build the ...

Robert Oppenheimer, widely known as the "father ... understand the difference in the values of former US President Harry Truman, who authorized dropping the atomic bombs, and those of his grandfather.

Robert Oppenheimer ... After the war, Oppenheimer chaired the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. He opposed developing an even more powerful hydrogen bomb. When President Truman finally approved ...