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?

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.

Christopher Nolan’s next project is an adaptation of The Odyssey, and though Oppenheimer is his biggest project to date, his ...

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 ...

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

The July 21 theatrical release of the film “Oppenheimer,” focused on the life of a prominent American nuclear physicist, should help to remind us of how badly the development of modern weapons has ...

Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures In Christopher Nolan’s new film, “Oppenheimer,” Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who oversaw the Manhattan Project ...

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 ...

A dramatization of the life story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who had a large hand in the development of the atomic bomb, thus helping end World War 2. We see his life from university ...

At the press conference in Paris, Christopher Nolan hailed the performances of his actors and said, “I think you’re going to be as impressed with them as I have been. It’s an intense ...

The film, directed by British filmmaker Christopher Nolan, follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the U.S. physicist who led the Manhattan Project to develop the world’s first ...

Last year’s Oscar winners Emma Stone, Cillian Murphy Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Robert Downey Jr. are set to return to the 2025 ceremony as presenters. Stone won for best actress for playing Bella ...