J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the technical director of the Manhattan Project and "father" of the atomic bomb, when asked in a closed Senate hearing room how he would protect against a nuclear weapon entering the United States quipped, "with a screwdriver, to open each and every crate and suitcase."

Rebecca Abrahams: Countdown to Zero: Is it Possible? 2010

(Witness his press-friendly insertion of "a code that translates DNA into English letters with punctuation" into the new bacterium, spelling out "the names of the 46 researchers who helped with the project, quotations from James Joyce, physicist Richard Feynman and J. Robert Oppenheimer, and a URL that anyone who deciphers the code can e-mail.")

Let There Be Life 2010

Their ancient philosophies have also influenced physicists, among them Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg and J. Robert Oppenheimer, who read from the Bhagavad Gita at a memorial service for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Philip Goldberg: Are Eastern Religions More Science-Friendly? 2010

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the technical director of the Manhattan Project and "father" of the atomic bomb, when asked in a closed Senate hearing room how he would protect against a nuclear weapon entering the United States quipped, "with a screwdriver, to open each and every crate and suitcase."

Rebecca Abrahams: Countdown to Zero: Is it Possible? 2010

Their ancient philosophies have also influenced physicists, among them Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg and J. Robert Oppenheimer, who read from the Bhagavad Gita at a memorial service for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Philip Goldberg: Are Eastern Religions More Science-Friendly? 2010

The military planners were mainly concerned about the bomber pilots catching a dose, but J. Robert Oppenheimer, "The Father of the Bomb," worried, with good cause (as it turned out) that the radiation could drift a few miles and also fall to earth with the rain.

Greg Mitchell: Secrecy, Cover-ups and Deadly Radiation: On the Birth of the Nuclear Age 65 Years Ago 2010

One little known detail about Trinity is this: J. Robert Oppenheimer, "The Father of the Bomb," was so surprised by the incredible visual effects of the July 16, 1945, test that he came to believe that a demonstration shot might well have convinced the Japanese to quit (though he never urged this path, feeling the momentum to drop the bomb over cities was unstoppable).

Greg Mitchell: How the First Nuclear Blast, 65 Years Ago Today, Set Truman on Path to Hiroshima 2010

The military planners were mainly concerned about the bomber pilots catching a dose, but J. Robert Oppenheimer, "The Father of the Bomb," worried, with good cause (as it turned out) that the radiation could drift a few miles and also fall to earth with the rain.

Greg Mitchell: Secrecy, Cover-ups and Deadly Radiation: On the Birth of the Nuclear Age 65 Years Ago 2010

They fall in love, they contend, they rage, they bleed, they act stupid, they are betrayed by friends, they are the suavest in the room - I believe both J. Robert Oppenheimer and Marie Curie might have been all of the above.

Lauren Gunderson: Eureka! Science Belongs On Stage 2010

The atomic scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer -- witnessing the power of the atomic bomb he had helped to unleash and borrowing in his own way from the Bhagavad Gita, writings sacred to the Hindu tradition -- called out ruefully, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

William Vendley, Ph.D.: Nuclear Theology Ph.D. William Vendley 2010