Martin J. Sherwin

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

The inventor of the atomic bomb, the subject of Christopher Nolan’s new film, was the chief celebrity victim of the national trauma known as McCarthyism.

In the nearly sixty years since the Cuban missile crisis, the story of near-catastrophe has only grown more complicated.

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

What did Truman and Oppenheimer actually say in that room?

The movie has no interest in reducing the atomic bombings to a trivializing, exploitative spectacle, despite what some would want.

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

Even as they tell others’ stories, historians often write about their own lives.

A conversation with Louisa Hall about her novel, “Trinity.”