Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb? Oppenheimer’s name has become “a metaphor for mass death beneath a mushroom cloud,” in the words of Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin ...

Robert Oppenheimer. I think we can trust Nolan to ... He is known to have quoted the Bhagavad Gita: “I have become death, the destroyer of worlds”. The angular face and edgy, restive persona ...

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 ...

Robert Oppenheimer, were American-born Jewish physicists ... just six months before his death in 1967, informally agreed to assume the presidency of the institute. Kramer notes the lack of ...

Robert Oppenheimer (April 22 ... and "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." After the war Oppenheimer was a chief advisor to the newly created United States Atomic Energy Commission ...

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.

Robert Oppenheimer. You might recognize ... of a line from the Hindu scripture Bhagavad-Gita, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." He later said: "We knew the world would not be ...

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 ...

J Robert Oppenheimer was a curious mix of a man ... ten teachers when the bomb went off and all but one was burned to death immediately. In a three mile radius of the blast, almost everybody ...