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 ...

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

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 ...

This was Trinity — the world’s first nuclear explosion, marking the moment humankind crossed into the atomic age.Part of The Manhattan Project led by J Robert Oppenheimer, Trinity was a codename ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

After Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer broke records at the box office, James Cameron is working on a nuclear war film of his ...

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.