J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was an American theoretical physicist. Oppenheimer was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project and therefore responsible for the research and design of the atomic bomb.

J. Robert Oppenheimer served as the first chair of our Board of Sponsors, a group established by Albert Einstein that has counted 40 Nobel Laureates over the years. Beyond this leadership role, Oppenheimer also authored over a dozen articles in the Bulletin and was the subject of …

Jul 17, 2023 · In making the bomb, Oppenheimer became immersed in what I call nuclearism —the embrace of the weapon as serving humankind (Lifton 1979). But with the later development of weapons a thousand times more destructive than the Hiroshima bomb, he became an articulate critic of nuclearism, perhaps the most articulate of all critics.

Jul 16, 2023 · Despite having served his country so devotedly in heading the atomic bomb project at Los Alamos, he was now publicly humiliated, condemned as a security risk, stripped of his security clearance, and forced to step down from his government consultancies.

Sep 15, 2015 · Published in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Vol. 23, No. 8, 1967)

3 days ago · The clock was established in 1947 by Albert Einstein, Manhattan Project director J. Robert Oppenheimer, and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons as part of ...

Sep 15, 2015 · A founder of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the first chairman of our Board of Sponsors and a member until his death. J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) was a frequent Bulletin contributor.

2 days ago · The Bulletin was founded in 1945 by scientists including Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Subjects include theoretical physics, the development of the atomic bomb, the relationship between government and science, organization of research on nuclear energy, control of nuclear energy, security in scientific fields, secrecy, loyalty, disarmament, education of scientists, international intellectual exchange, the moral responsibility of ...

2 days ago · The Doomsday Clock, a concept designed by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to represent humanity’s proximity to a global catastrophe, is being updated Tuesday.