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 ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” Los Alamos holds a significant place in World War II history. What’s more, the film also brings the town itself into mainstream view ...

Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research site at Los Alamos, New Mexico, named the site Trinity after a poem by John Donne that he had shared with his ...

In the episode: Physicist-turned-photographer Minesh Bacrania shares his experience photographing inside the top-secret labs at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where J. Robert Oppenheimer and ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb ... the top-secret development of an American atomic bomb — at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico. He was an unlikely candidate for ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who oversaw the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Naum Kazhdan/The New York Times The movie is based on “American Prometheus: The Triumph ...

In 1943 J. Robert Oppenheimer was named the director of the Bomb Project at Los Alamos, a self-contained area protected -- and completely controlled -- by the U.S. Army. Special driver's licenses ...

Elsewhere in the state, the film is viewed less negatively, particularly in Los Alamos, the secret city where Oppenheimer's team of scientists carried out their work. For residents there ...

In this episode: Physicist-turned-photographer Minesh Bacrania shares his experience photographing inside the top-secret labs at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where J. Robert Oppenheimer and ...

Lead image: J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy, front) created a secret “company town” -Los Alamos–to develop the bomb. Note the street sign “Trinity Drive”–the bomb was named by ...

The imagery Van Hoytema captured ranged from the subatomic world in Oppenheimer’s mind to the vast vistas of Los Alamos, often using IMAX cameras. Van Hoytema, who began his career in Sweden ...