The letter also galvanised the US into action. In April 1940 the government appointed the veteran physicist Arthur Compton to head a nuclear weapons programme, which eventually became the ...

It was largely down to his double-crossing that Soviets were able to test their own atomic bomb months earlier – to the ...

While most of the show's characters were based on real-life participants in the 1986 nuclear disaster, Khomyuk's character (played by Emily Watson) was invented by writer and producer Craig Mazin.

“Oppenheimer” finally premiered Friday in the nation where two cities were obliterated 79 years ago by the nuclear weapons invented by the American scientist who was the subject of the Oscar ...

To end it, the most powerful weapon the world had ever seen was about to be unleashed, a watershed in world history: the atomic bomb. The bomb’s colossal destructive power comes from the vast ...