Oppenheimer became increasingly worried about a nuclear holocaust resulting from the proliferation of these weapons. Over the past 80 years, the threat of such nuclear annihilation was perhaps ...

Here's what scientists saw when Gadget was detonated: Immediately after the blast, Oppenheimer reportedly ... the US military tried to cover up the nuclear test, putting out a statement claiming ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer was an immensely complex figure, and the movie's based on a biography of him. While the movie is historically accurate in many ways, there are a few bits of fiction mixed in.

Nuclear-weapons physicist Greg Spriggs rates "Oppenheimer" for realism. He explains how accurate Christopher Nolan's recreation of the construction of the first atomic bomb in Los Alamos and the ...

On July 9, 1962, the U.S. conducted one of its last high-altitude tests of a nuclear ... Nolan’s film Oppenheimer this summer, I was surprised to find myself weeping and gasping for breath during the ...

“I don’t hold a grudge against Mr Oppenheimer himself or anything like that. It’s a much bigger issue,” said Yahata, who often speaks on behalf of survivors of the nuclear blasts in the ...

As millions of people head to the theaters this weekend to see Christopher Nolan’s epic Oppenheimer ... wrought by the U.S. government’s first nuclear weapons test. The “Trinity” test ...