"Finally, after about a minute and a half, there's suddenly a tremendous noise — BANG — and then a rumble, like thunder," Feynman remembered later. "Oppenheimer" doesn't zoom out beyond the ...

Feynman's lecture was, in truth, a very minor incident in his brilliant career, but if we were to look for the source of its later power, the starting point must be the figure of Feynman himself.

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.

It isn’t really a book, but Richard Feynman’s Appendix to the Challenger Disaster Report is still definitely something you should read. It’s not particularly long, but it’s educational ...