Charles Oppenheimer argues we must use the atom to truly power peace and shares a letter from his grandfather.

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Oppenheimer chronicles the life of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who played a significant role in the Manhattan Project that created the world's first nuclear weapons.

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To paraphrase J. Robert Oppenheimer and Gen. James Mattis, some 64 years later, the United States learns again and again that ...

Movies can tell us a lot about what scares us. And ever since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago this week, the fear of nuclear war has reverberated across decades of ...

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 resulted in Japan's surrender, ending World War II and ushering in the Atomic Age.

Hersey wrote it based on what Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a Methodist minister, told the writer in May 1946 of the events of August 6, 1945, at Asano Park (now Shukkeien Garden) by Kyobashi River.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer, known as the father of the atomic bomb, led the Manhattan Project which developed the first nuclear weapons used in World War II, resulting in devastating impacts on Hiroshima ...