Here, 12 books to watch if Oppenheimer peaked your interest in the atomic bomb—including the 700-page biography that Nolan based his film on. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J ...

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The definitive telling of that story is Richard Rhodes’ Pulitzer Prize–winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb, first released in 1986. The 800-page tome has become something of a sacred text ...

As it happened, Nolan had recently completed “Tenet,” a movie that references the atomic bomb, and one of its stars, Robert Pattinson, had given the director a book of Oppenheimer’s speeches ...

The Book Behind ‘Oppenheimer’ Tops Bestseller Lists as ... . Robert Oppenheimer,” Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird’s sweeping biography about the physicist dubbed the father of the atomic bomb.

E. Tammy Kim reviews “Korean Nuclear Diaspora,” by Yuko Takahashi, a new ethnography of Korean survivors of the atomic-bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War.

You talk in your book about how Oppenheimer believed that using the atomic bomb could end all wars because people would see how terrible it was. Yes, they do capture this in the movie. Oppenheimer ...

To end World War II, was it necessary to drop atomic bombs on two Japanese cities, killing roughly 200,000 people? Instead, couldn’t the U.S. have vividly shown the power of its new weapon by ...

Last month, the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors known for their powerful global activism. These survivors, hibakusha in Japanese ...