death had felt to him like that afternoon.” For the next week, Oppenheimer,like much of the nation, sat in front of a television and watched the tragedyfurther unfold.On December 2, President Lyndon Johnson wen
Wins a Golden Globe Award for Oppenheimer Robert Downey Jr. gave a powerful speech after winning a Golden Globe Award for Oppenheimer.“I was young and crazy,” Downey Jr. explained when referring to his first Oscar nomination. “It would have put me under the impression that I was on the...
• Robert Oppenheimer, who was head of the Los Alamos Lab during the Manhattan Project to develop nuclear weapons; • Richard Tolman, who served as scientific advisor to General Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project; • Thomas Hunt Morgan, who won the Nobel Prize in 1933 ...
Towards the end of 2023, there was a media focus on several British celebrities who have voiced their opinions on of how persons who have terminal and painful illness, e.g., cancer, should have the power to determine the circumstances of their own death. Foremost in this was the 83-year-...
Seventy-nine years ago, the era of atomic weapons began with the Trinity test. My novel aboutJ. Robert Oppenheimerand theManhattan ProjectisThe Oppenheimer Alternatvie, and, in my humble opinion, it’s the best of my 25 novels: “Incredibly realistic: the characters, locations, the era, and...
“Last I checked, it was Saturday,” he says of today. Four days ago, Downey, fifty-nine, was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in Oppenheimer, and telling himself this is just a regular Saturday is his way of keeping life small. “It’s so funny, too, because you either...