Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures In Christopher Nolan’s new film, “Oppenheimer,” Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who oversaw the Manhattan Project ...

the first time I ever voted was in the presidential election of 1936.” But a profound shift occurred in Oppenheimer during the mid-1930s, as he watched family, friends and great scientific minds ...

After the explosion, the US military tried to cover up the nuclear test ... effectively ending World War II. At the time, Oppenheimer celebrated and even said he wished the bomb had been made ...