In 1945, Hollywood set in motion its first big-budget movie drama about the making and use of the atomic bomb. Almost immediately a competing project emerged (with a screenplay by Ayn Rand, no less).

The awards juggernaut Oppenheimer provides a blockbuster treatment of one scientist’s profoundly mixed feelings regarding his role in the creation of the atomic bomb, and its subsequent use in ...

The “father of the atomic bomb” has long been misunderstood. Will the new film finally get J. Robert Oppenheimer right? Based on a True Story Andy Kifer Since the end of World War II, historians and ...

The atomic bomb has such a rich role in film history, we’re kind of surprised it doesn’t have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yet. This week’s opening of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” (see ...