July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever ...

It is one of history’s ironies that Hirohito, honored by his people, died peacefully in 1989 while a moral taint still attaches to Harry Truman, the hero who ended the killing. Credit to J ...

The Truman Library on the historic ties between President Harry S. Truman and Robert Oppenheimer. The subject of Christopher Nolan's movie new movie "Oppenheimer" had a unique relationship to ...

Yes, that Gary Oldman, looking very much like that Harry Truman who calls Oppenheimer “a big sissy.” Cillian Murphy (“Peaky Blinder,” “Dunkirk”) is Oppenheimer, who stands at the ...

The movie “Oppenheimer” makes much of the projected tortured soul of Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific genius behind the creation of the atomic bomb. Yet there was no moral ambivalence… ...

Oppenheimer to Truman, 3 May 1946, Papers of Harry S. Truman, President’s Secretary’s File, box 201, folder, “Atomic Energy—Russia,” Harry S. Truman Library. Cited in Matthew Evangelista, Innovation ...

In the meeting, Oppenheimer told Truman, "I have blood on my hands," and Truman handed him a handkerchief. "He hasn't half as much blood on his hands as I have," the president said afterward.

Christopher Nolan delivers his first biographical epic in Oppenheimer. Based on the book American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film follows the life of theoretical physicist J ...

One of the pivotal scenes in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer depicts the titular physicist’s 25 October 1945 meeting with President Harry S. Truman in the Oval Office. Truman welcomes Oppenheimer into ...

Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer poses tough questions about America’s nuclear arms program, ... like just the idea that Harry Truman very carefully weighed whether to use the bomb or not.