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 ...
Last month, the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors known for ...
Nicknamed the “Father of All Bombs” (FAB-9000 ... For the sake of comparison, “Little Boy,” the atomic bomb dropped by the ...
NAGASAKI--“Oppenheimer,” the blockbuster biopic of the season about “the father of the atomic bomb” that received a delayed release in Japan, was bound to be dissected by critics looking ...
The Atomic Rocketeer — a new feature documentary co-directed by Larry L. Sheffield— tells the story of a German rocket ...
Nov. 14 marked the closing of the diocesan phase of the cause for the beatification of Father Pedro Arrupe, the 28th superior general of the Society of Jesus.
Teaching peace is incredibly important — but we can’t say “never again” and be forward-looking without looking back. Last ...
The Russian version, called the Father Of All Bombs, weighs just 15,560lbs and is packed with the equivalent to 44 tons of explosive TNT.
"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 ...
He also was responsible for internal security operations in the production facilities that helped keep the development of the atomic bomb secret. In this sixth installment of several articles covering ...
Eighteen miles west of Knoxville lies the town of Oak Ridge, birthplace of the atomic bomb. We drove over a recently ... was to do in those days,” a father said. Today the city has its Boosters ...