General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name The Manhattan Project. As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious, expensive engineering feat in history, it was General Groves who hired Oppenheimer (with knowledge of his left-wing past), planned facilities that would extract the...
Featuring a glittering, star-studded cast, Christopher Nolan's brilliant new film charts the turbulent life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who played a significant role in developing the first atomic bombs. If you enjoyed the movie, here's your chance to learn more about this fascinating chapter from history.