He was a man of contradictions: a brilliant physicist, fuelled by self-loathing; a student of philosophy and mysticism, who longed to be an all-American hero. He was responsible for building the most ...

Naomi Alderman explores the multifaceted mind of J Robert Oppenheimer, scientific lead on the Manhattan Project, a vast, top secret scheme to build the world's first atomic bombs. Show more Naomi ...

He found his dream scientist in the person of J. Robert Oppenheimer ... he did not let Oppenheimer’s Communist ties get him bounced off the project. During the 1930s, the scientist gave money ...

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...

The implication that the Nazis could develop extremely powerful weapons prompted President Roosevelt to establish the Manhattan Project in 1941. In June 1942, Robert Oppenheimer was appointed its ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was an American theoretical physicist. Oppenheimer was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project and therefore responsible for the research ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer 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 first nuclear weapons. Latest ...

After all, the Manhattan ... of the Manhattan Project’s Theoretical Division, those who calculated critical mass and modeled implosions, were Jews. Some, such as J. Robert Oppenheimer, were ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer. But despite the Manhattan Project’s success depicted in the film, in his latter years, Oppenheimer became increasingly worried about a nuclear holocaust resulting from the ...

U.S. theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) led the Manhattan Project, America’s wartime atomic bomb development initiative. He is also the main character of “Oppenheimer ...

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer offers insights into social studies topics including World War II, the Manhattan Project, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of the war ...