Tag: atom
Oppenheimer’s atom bombs came close to destroying Japan for the third time
Posted: August 8, 2023 at 10:23 pm / Books
EXCLUSIVE: First Hiroshima, then Nagasaki… yet Japan came frighteningly close to being targeted a third time by Oppenheimer’s atomic weapons, as a new book reveals on the anniversary of that hellish week in 1945. Daily Express :: Books Feed
Tragedy of Robert Oppenheimer the flawed genius who built the atom bomb
Posted: July 14, 2023 at 10:23 pm / Books
EXCLUSIVE: Robert Oppenheimer was the Leonardo da Vinci of his age, a childhood prodigy turned brilliant theoretical physicist. But he was also a communist sympathiser, cursed with hubris and accused of spying. An acclaimed new film starring Cillian Murphy unpicks his complex legacy. Daily Express :: Books Feed