Lewis Strauss

Celebrated and damned as the “father of the atomic bomb,” theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer lived a complicated scientific and political life.

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

I covered the 1989 fight over George H.W. Bush's secretary of defense nominee. It feels awfully familiar.

It hasn't happened for 100 years.

Oppenheimer and the demon heart of power.

What did Truman and Oppenheimer actually say in that room?

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?

The so-called "father of the bomb" helped bring us prematurely into the age of existential risk.

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

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.