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, leader of the team of brilliant scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, who built the world’s first atomic bomb. It’s not a documentary, but it gets the big historical ...

"We didn't have any idea that it was an atomic bomb, nor that my father's factory was so close to where the bomb was dropped," Yamawaki explains. His mother and his younger siblings had left ...

How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have built a weapon like the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

It’s a terrific movie, historically accurate and thought-provoking. The film’s recurring theme is Oppenheimer’s nightmarish ...

The atomic bomb in Hiroshima left thousands of children ... in what is now Hiroshima’s Saeki Ward. He also sold his father’s and his own houses to raise funds. That December, he opened the ...

Fukahori, whose funeral was scheduled for Monday at the Urukami Cathedral, met Pope Francis that same year when he presented the Holy Father with ... place where an atomic bomb is ever dropped.” ...

Fukahori represented the bomb victims at a ceremony, making his “pledge for peace,” saying: “I am determined to send our message to make Nagasaki the final place where an atomic bomb is ever ...

My father had gone out to get a haircut and he ... the US B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the “ultimate weapon”, the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The bomb, “Little Boy” had been ...