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Nuclear Weapons

The explosive musical score to Oppenheimer

By Reba A. Wissner | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Isidor Rabi, Dorothy McKibben, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Victor Weisskopf converse. Photo credit: American Institute of Physics Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection.

Post-‘Oppenheimer,’ what we should do to dismantle the nuclear Doomsday Machine

By Ivana Nikolić Hughes | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A Japanese scholar gives her personal view on J. Robert Oppenheimer

By Shiho Nakazawa | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Personal Essay

The Bulletin reviews ‘Oppenheimer’

By Thomas Gaulkin | Nuclear Weapons

Watching Ukraine, South Korea and Japan eye nuclear weapons. Here’s what the US should do.

By Sayuri Romei | Nuclear Weapons

The guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee launches a Block V Tomahawk cruise missile, the weapon's newest variant, during a three day missile exercise. (U.S. Navy photo by Ensign Sean Ianno)

A new nuclear-armed, sea-launched cruise missile: Just say no

By Robert J. Goldston | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A timeline of Oppenheimer and his legacy

By Dan Drollette Jr | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay, Presentation

Playing downwind of the Trinity test site on the day of the explosion, July 16, 1945

Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test

By Lesley M. M. Blume | Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

Oppenheimer security badge photo at Los Alamos

“He did not speak the ordinary language”: Memories of Oppie, from a Manhattan Project physicist

By Dan Drollette Jr | Interviews, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

July issue: Oppenheimer. The man. The movie. The legacy.

By Dan Drollette Jr | Nuclear Weapons

Oppie—“A very mysterious and delphic character.” Interview with Kai Bird, co-author of American Prometheus

By Dan Drollette Jr | Interviews, Nuclear Weapons

Color photo of Trinity test of atomic bomb on July 16, 1945

Introduction — Oppenheimer: The man behind the movie

By Dan Drollette Jr | Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics