After decades of hesitation, countries are revisiting nuclear power as a clean energy solution. This report examines how new technology, small modular reactors, and public demand for carbon reduction ...
Years before Robert Oppenheimer led the Los Alamos lab that developed the first nuclear weapons, physicists in D.C. thrust the world into the atomic age — inside a narrow, zigzagging tunnel running ...
The documentary A Compassionate Spy (now streaming on Hulu) arrived nearly in concert with Oppenheimer, both being about men who developed the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, and suffered some deeply ...
Sunday, July 9th, watch “To End All War: Oppenheimer & The Atomic Bomb,” an NBC News Studios production. The feature documentary examines physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the weapon that changed ...
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Lise Meitner, an Austrian-Swedish physicist, was a trailblazer in nuclear physics and co-discovered nuclear fission, the process that powers both nuclear reactors and weapons. Despite her critical ...
WASHINGTON—The Heritage Foundation released a new documentary today exposing the vulnerabilities of America’s aging nuclear arsenal—and the growing threat posed by China’s comparative nuclear strength ...
J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brooding and brilliant physicist who led the creation of the atomic bomb, has always seemed to me the personification of an unsettling paradox. We all certainly know that as ...