In "Oppenheimer," Damon takes on the role of Leslie Groves. According to the Atomic Heritage Foundation, Groves was an officer for the United States Army Corps of Engineers and a director of the ...

Acclaimed director Christopher Nolan's summer blockbuster "Oppenheimer" is slated to release next year in Japan ... a key role in the invention of the atomic bomb that was eventually dropped ...

I can only imagine their horror if they learned what came next: Trinity was only the ... Our nuclear weapons are much more powerful than Oppenheimer's atomic bomb Of these, 100 were detonated ...

famous as “The Father of the Atomic Bomb.” The thumbnail version of Tatlock’s life is that she was J. Robert Oppenheimer’s troubled mistress. She also may have been his “truest love ...

Strauss didn’t want to run the Atomic Energy Commission ... Once it was in motion, neither Oppenheimer nor Einstein could stop what came next — they could only watch as it spiraled.

the next step in the nuclear arms race. Oppenheimer still had a hand in the United States' nuclear program, as he was a member of the Atomic Energy Commission, but he fiercely opposed the ...

Oppenheimer’s decision to oversee the building of the atomic bomb is driven in part by ... in as the film’s ideal of Jewish morality next to Oppenheimer, its face of Jewish pragmatism.

Robert Oppenheimer (Golden Globe winner Cillian Murphy) becomes the central figure in a pulse-pounding race against the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb. Written for the screen and directed ...

Robert Oppenheimer is often placed next to Albert Einstein as the 20th century’s most famous physicist. He will forever be the “father of the atomic bomb” after the first nuclear weapon was ...

Likely fact: Oppenheimer estimated only 20,000 people would die from an atomic bomb When discussing ... "He regretted what came next, and he did a lot of work to try and avoid that." ...

What happened next, however, was the Cold War ... And in 1954, after 19 days of secret hearings, the Atomic Energy Commission revoked Oppenheimer’s security clearance. As the New York Times ...