Many hope it will answer a question that has long divided Americans and the country’s understanding of its history: Who exactly was J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb?

T he Brutalist director Brady Corbet is hopeful that the success of his historical epic, which stars Adrien Brody as fictional architect László Tóth, could mark a turning point ...

Cillian Murphy’s dedication to Oppenheimer went beyond acting—he learned 30,000 words of Dutch, followed a brutal diet, and ...

Robert Oppenheimer's name has become almost synonymous with the atomic bomb, and also with the dilemma facing scientists when the interests of the nation and their own conscience collide.

A grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” has visited Hiroshima and urged Japan to defuse tensions among the world’s leading nuclear powers. “The tension that ...

In a statement outlining the change, the Board highlighted three main reasons for “moving the Doomsday Clock from 90 seconds ...

They join last year’s Oscar winners Emma Stone, Cillian Murphy, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Robert Downey Jr., who were ...

Scientists and global leaders revealed on Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" has been reset to the closest humanity has ever come to self-annihilation.

The movie focuses on J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the assembly and testing of the first-ever atomic bomb at Los Alamos in New Mexico. In several scenes, the physicist, who is becoming the ...

Juan Noguera, an industrial design professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, stands in the university's design shop.

The Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which runs the clock, decided to move the clock one second closer to ...