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

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

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

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

By Dan Drollette Jr | Interviews, Nuclear Weapons

Oppenheimer movie scene

An extended interview with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer

By John Mecklin | Interviews, Nuclear Weapons

How do humans make sense of the bomb? A photo essay.

By Robert Del Tredici, Gordon Edwards | Analysis, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Multimedia, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

J. Robert Oppenheimer. Credit: James Vaughn. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Accessed via Flickr.

Four senators ask Biden to clear Oppenheimer’s name

By Susan D’Agostino | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Bees together. Honeybees (Apis melifera) on wild fennel. Credit: Jack Wolf. CC BY-ND 2.0.

A taste of radioactive honey: The long-lived legacies of nuclear testing

By Susan D’Agostino | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Risk

Perdix drone swarm test.

Meet the future weapon of mass destruction, the drone swarm

By Zachary Kallenborn | Disruptive Technologies

The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, January 1946, London.

1947: How the American people feel about the atomic bomb

By Sylvia Eberhart | Nuclear Weapons

1975: All in our time: A foul and awesome display

By Kenneth T. Bainbridge | Nuclear Risk

Australia’s “firenadoes” summon images of Hiroshima, atomic bombs

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Susan Southard: Unveiling the aftermath of nuclear war

By Dawn Stover | Interviews