During the Cuban missile crisis, World War III was likely averted by what one US official called ‘just plain dumb luck.’ ...

A proposal to rename a New York street after the so-called father of the atomic bomb is raising eyebrows.Long Island’s Frank ...

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Robert Oppenheimer, often called “the father of the atomic bomb” for leading the Manhattan ... “From Hiroshima’s standpoint, the horror of nuclear weapons was not sufficiently depicted ...

“Oppenheimer said to Groves, ‘Look, the Nazis will have their own bomb project and it will be led by Heisenberg, who’s one of the leading nuclear physicists in the world. We need to move and ...

His Oppenheimer was not so much a miracle as hard work. He lost 28 pounds to get the silhouette. Then, he rose to the character step-by-step over six months--reading, listening to Oppenheimer's ...

Today, 9 countries wield nuclear weapons with the cumulative power to end human civilization in minutes. Yet in the nearly 80 ...

HIROSHIMA—The film “Oppenheimer,” a ... nation to have suffered an atomic bomb attack, Japan has not yet signed the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Binard said that ...