Edward Teller

Oppenheimer and the demon heart of power.

It turns out there was an "unlikely" chance the first atomic bomb could have ignited the atmosphere — which didn’t stop the Manhattan Project.

How America’s search for total security keeps making the world more dangerous.

On Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”

Might a world republic provide humanity with the tools to address the climate emergency, runaway artificial intelligence, and new weapons of mass extermination?

American leaders called the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki our 'least abhorrent choice,' but there were alternatives to the nuclear attacks.

Watching 'Oppenheimer' with the author of a definitive account of the Manhattan Project.

The "father of the atomic bomb" has long been misunderstood. Will the new film finally get J. Robert Oppenheimer right?

Manhattan Project physicist was infamously stripped of his security clearance in 1954.

The father of game theory helped develop the atom bomb—and thought he could calculate when to use it.

At least 12 Black chemists and physicists worked as primary researchers on the team that developed the technology behind the atomic bomb.

In 1953, as a political battle raged over the US’s nuclear future, the physicist lost a classified document on an overnight train from Philadelphia to DC.

Counterculture-inspired research flourished in the Age of Aquarius.

A second life for an organization of scientists who questioned how their work was being used.

The beauty of the atomic scientists' calculations hid from them the truly Faustian contract they scratched their names to.