You may have already watched Christopher Nolan's blockbuster on the atomic bomb, but now you can read a first-hand account of the Manhattan Project ... Robert Oppenheimer and Nobel Prize winners ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who oversaw the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos ... transcripts, letters, diaries, declassified documents and FBI dossiers. Mark Sommerfeld for The ...

But Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Groves chose Oppenheimer as the Manhattan Project’s director in 1942 ... Einstein had signed a letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, written by physicist ...

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 ...

It presents a new lens in which to consider one of the most well-known events in the US—but Oppenheimer is not the only way to access the memory of this history. Manhattan Project National ...

Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research ... well as transcripts from congressional hearings and letters among some of the principals offers a unique ...

Oppenheimer, who died in 1967, led the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. The theoretical physicist was later accused of ...

In reality, Oppenheimer consulted Arthur Compton, who was directing the University of Chicago efforts of the Manhattan Project ... Einstein wrote the letter that convinced President Franklin ...

A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico during World War II.

In 1947, just two years after the end of WWII, a group of Manhattan Project scientists, including Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer, created the Doomsday Clock. It’s a metaphor, not a ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a theoretical physicist. 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 ...