SOCORRO, N.M. (KRQE) – A retiree in Socorro, New Mexico was amazed to see “The Father of the Atomic Bomb,” J. Robert Oppenheimer, captured in a decades-old family movie. “We’re going ...
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a theoretical physicist. During World War II, he served as director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory, where he led the effort to develop the world’s ...
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.
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 ...