The tale of J. Robert Oppenheimer ranks among the most haunting and consequential of the modern era, yet all but its barest outlines are largely forgotten. Oppenheimer was 38 when he was appointed director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, the centerpiece of the Manhattan Project, the $2 billion, top-secret World War II program to build the atomic bomb. After the …
St John: The tiny island where Robert Oppenheimer escaped his legacy cdwheatley/Getty Images St John: The tiny island where Robert Oppenheimer escaped his legacy A new biopic is shedding light on rise and fall of "the father of the atomic bomb". But while Oppenheimer publicly grappled with the moral consequences of his creation after World War Two, few people know …
