| 单词 | Oppenheimer |
| 例句 | Oppenheimer’s teams were working through the night, grabbing a few hours of sleep in their Tech Area offices. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s solution was to plant a false, but believable, story about what was happening at Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Alvarez claimed that “this was the first time I had ever heard anyone in my life say that Dr. Oppenheimer was not to be trusted.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “If you ask, ‘Can we make them more terrible?’ the answer is yes,” Oppenheimer told a reporter. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer duly contrived “an elegant theory to rationalize these results,” and when Bohr came for his visit, the work was trotted out for him as a showpiece of Rad Lab science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Langan gets his scholarship taken away, and Oppenheimer gets sent to a psychiatrist. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z There, Oppenheimer, who struggled with depression his entire life, grew despondent. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Graduate Dean George Birkhoff assured Ernest of Harvard’s high esteem for Oppenheimer “as a creative theorist” and confided that the university was willing to appoint him as an associate professor at $6,000. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The majority opinion was written by Lewis Strauss, who spared no effort to paint Oppenheimer as a weak-minded perjurer whose behavior had materially undermined national security. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In any case, Ernest Lawrence, a man normally not given to introspection in the Oppenheimer style, struggled to set down his emotions on paper. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Yet Oppenheimer almost always gave Ernest the benefit of the doubt. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Also, Oppenheimer has a local connection to the Bay Area: he taught at the University of California at Berkeley. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z During a period of unexampled intellectual ferment in physics, there were few topics on which Oppenheimer failed to publish a letter or paper. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The GAC had reached the conclusion that the intensified test schedule really was placing insupportable pressure on Los Alamos; sooner or later, Oppenheimer feared, the workload would erode the quality of the lab’s product. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If Oppenheimer ever wanted to share any scientific information with the Soviets, he could use this connection. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z No one who knew Robert Oppenheimer was the least bit surprised. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z While construction crews began expanding roads and nailing together new buildings at Los Alamos, Oppenheimer turned to his next task: “a policy of absolutely unscrupulous recruiting of anyone we can lay hands on.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer wasn’t fit to be a soldier, Groves acknowledged. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Chevalier was a professor of French literature at Berkeley and the host of the Communist discussion group at which Oppenheimer had been spotted by the FBI about two years earlier. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He sprinted to the campus of the University of California, where he taught, and ran from lab to lab with the news, soon bumping into one of his fellow professors, Robert Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet when Oppenheimer arrived in Washington with the letter, Stimson was absent—a man of seventy-seven trying to recover his strength at an Adirondacks resort after the superhuman exertions of the summer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For Frank Oppenheimer, who had been looking forward to the trip as a long-deferred homecoming, it was even more stunning. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Several times Oppenheimer stuck his head into the room to check on the progress, like an anxious husband whose wife was in labor. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after Japan's surrender, Robert Oppenheimer got on a train and headed east. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s preamble to the document delivered the gist: “No member of the Committee was willing to endorse this proposal,” he wrote. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, through his network of well-connected friends sharing his fear of Communist world domination, Strauss placed articles attacking Oppenheimer in Henry Luce’s Time, Life, and Fortune, and other popular magazines. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Fresh from the journey, he materialized in Caltech’s physics lab with his arm in a sling, and declared, “I am Oppenheimer.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s scientists assumed this same gun assembly method would work for plutonium. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike Lawrence, who was skilled at communicating concepts but impatient with the burden of classroom teaching, Oppenheimer liked teaching; he just was not very good at it. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I am quite sure I didn’t say to him that the president had doubts about Dr. Oppenheimer simply because it was not true,” he testified. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That night Oppenheimer went to a party in one of the men’s dorms, carrying in his hand a message from Washington with more details on the destruction in Hiroshima. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Only when they got inside and closed the door did he tell her that his real name was Robert Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time Oppenheimer disembarked from the 20th Century in Buffalo to return west, Groves recognized that he was the best choice of all. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Robert Oppenheimer poses at the front of his classroom at Princeton University, December 17, 1947. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When Nedelsky pointed out that the book was in Dutch, Oppenheimer replied, “But it’s such easy Dutch.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the bomb’s eerie light, General Farrell watched Oppenheimer’s reaction. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He never received a formal notification that he had passed the ordeal, though Oppenheimer later mentioned that in a copy he had seen of the board’s report, Serber had been “glowingly praised.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s exposure to the high-level deliberations in Schenectady impressed upon him, more directly than Lawrence’s scolding, the wisdom of shedding his political entanglements. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Lawrence the experimentalist and Oppenheimer the theoretical man formed about as strong a team as you could imagine in physics,” James Brady told an interviewer years later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z To Oppenheimer, this sounded like a marketing pitch for government funding of Lawrence’s laboratory, and he persuaded Ernest to back down. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer rejected the overture on the spot, though the encounter would create a political problem for him down the line. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At the presentation of his conference paper, Oppenheimer was run through the intellectual wringer by Robert Millikan, the notoriously prickly Caltech president. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The bottom line: Oppenheimer now had to figure out a whole new design for an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer repeated the brief conversation he had had with Chevalier. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet what really drove a wedge between Lawrence and Oppenheimer was politics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry,” Truman told Oppenheimer as they shook hands. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If so, why did Oppenheimer wait so long to tell us about it? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As Alvarez related Bush’s explanation, “I think the reason the president chose me is that he does not trust Dr. Oppenheimer.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On June 29, 1954, the Atomic Energy Commission voted 4 to 1 to revoke J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance, one day before it would have expired anyway. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer ran the meeting in his typically neutral manner, not taking sides during the discussion, but the committee seemed to see things his way. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As a Caltech graduate student, Carl Anderson spent several days in a packed lecture hall straining unsuccessfully to make sense of Oppenheimer’s class on quantum mechanics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Sometimes this was manifested as a new willingness to admit error, as when Niels Bohr visited Berkeley in April 1937 and casually demolished an Oppenheimer theory based on results from the cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer parked in the street and walked to Chevalier’s front door. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer won the argument by insisting that without a test, “the use of the gadget over enemy territory will have to be done substantially blindly.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Luckily for Oppenheimer, he was not in the fight alone. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought I said, ‘But that is treason,’ but I am not sure,” Oppenheimer would testify at his hearing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There Oppenheimer delivered an impressively detailed explication of atomic bomb physics, along with his own rough estimate that 100 kilograms of U-235—that is, 220 pounds—would be enough for a practical device. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Bush said he thought it odd that he should be chairman, since he was not a physicist; Oppenheimer, the best choice, already had been named to the committee. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Oppenheimer kept looking under the table and all around.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, he wanted Oppenheimer to get back to the lab and build more bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z After the loyalty hearing, Oppenheimer said, “we saw almost nothing of each other.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At Berkeley, Oppenheimer displayed the peculiar combination of personal charm and intellectual magnetism that would make him so effective a leader of the atomic bomb program at Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There could be no upside for the Rad Lab if it got dragged into the controversy over Oppenheimer’s past and behavior. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z An officer drove to Oppenheimer’s apartment to look for useful clues. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Reassuringly, the results had been validated theoretically by Oppenheimer, who was gratified that they undermined certain European theories of quantum dynamics with which he heartily disagreed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This saved the Soviets from going down the same dead end as Oppenheimer’s team. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Later accounts by Oppenheimer, Chevalier, and Eltenton leave no doubt that Oppenheimer instantly and heatedly turned away the offer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer thanked Roosevelt for the kind words, adding, “There will be many times in the months ahead when we shall remember them.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed to Oppenheimer that the opportunity to keep atomic weapons under control via international agreement was slipping away, perhaps never to be recovered. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer and Gen. Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, inspect the test site after the blast. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When Oppenheimer called Richard Feynman into his office, the twenty- six-year-old Feynman must have thought he was in trouble again. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Fermi, much of Oppenheimer’s scientific dream team was European, many of them Jews who had escaped from Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But Lawrence and Oppenheimer understood that they could not have achieved what they did without each other. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Oppenheimer was not observed until 8:30 a.m. next day,” the agents reported, “when he and Jean Tatlock left the building together.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Pash strongly recommended that Oppenheimer “be removed completely from the project and dismissed from employment by the U.S. Government.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was a serious danger, Oppenheimer told Feynman. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Students who came to study with Oppenheimer quickly realized they were in for a wild ride. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Up on “the Hill,” as Los Alamos became known to its residents, Oppenheimer asked Charlotte Serber to step into his office. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer and Farrell jumped in a jeep, drove to Groves’s bunker, and leaped out. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer was raised in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Manhattan, the son of an artist and a successful garment manufacturer. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It was an extraordinary demonstration of scientific percipience, and classic Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The British government agreed to send Oppenheimer a team of top physicists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Byrnes, who up to then had viewed the atomic bomb largely as an abstract device useful for bargaining with the Russians, would recall that Oppenheimer’s astonishing figures left him “thoroughly frightened.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At the semester break every spring when Oppenheimer decamped for Caltech, the entourage followed him south in a caravan of rickety vehicles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Lawrence responded to the summons by informing Compton, as a fait accompli, that he would be introducing a new participant to the technical roundtable: Robert Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “The scene inside the shelter was dramatic beyond words,” recalled Gen eral Thomas Farrell, who was there with Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Groves talked it over with Oppenheimer and other scientists at Los Alamos, many of whom had studied and worked in Germany before the war. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As Oppenheimer walked home, he saw one of his scientists bent over a bush, vomiting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Superman relied on his enormous physical strength; Oppenheimer could let loose the energy locked inside atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant physicist. He ran the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer tested the atomic bomb in the middle of a desert in New Mexico.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z At home, he and Oppenheimer would take long walks around Berkeley and into the bucolic woods of Northern California. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z From his new perch, Strauss fixed his sights on Oppenheimer’s last means of direct influence on commission policy, a consultantship he had been awarded by the previous chairman, Gordon Dean. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The following day, having weighed the demand with his Washington lawyers, Oppenheimer informed Strauss that he would fight the charges before an AEC review board. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer was rare among theorists in conceding value to the uncomplicated perception of nature, free of abstractions, that happened to be Lawrence’s approach. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Soviets had no way of knowing that Oppenheimer had just been named the scientific director of the American atomic bomb project, but they knew he was a top American physicist. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Within the decade, Oppenheimer’s theoretical teachings and Ernest Lawrence’s cyclotron would transform Berkeley into very much Caltech’s superior—no longer a desert but the preeminent center of nuclear physics in the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer, in his predilection for action, had foolishly overlooked Lawrence’s mind-set. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Four, three, two . “Oppenheimer, on whom had rested a very heavy burden, grew tenser as the last seconds ticked off,” remembered Farrell. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “We talked about physics,” Oppenheimer recalled, recognizing that Ernest’s intellectual interests were narrower than his own and that he might not be especially receptive to wide-ranging symposia on Eastern philosophy and Western art. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When Oppenheimer realized he needed to design a new type of plutonium bomb, he’d called for extra help. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Contemptuous of Oppenheimer’s arguments against the Super, he depicted Oppenheimer as a Svengali ruthlessly hypnotizing some of the world’s most sophisticated scientists into joining his opposition campaign. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Pushing any doubts out of his mind, Oppenheimer worked his scientists harder than ever. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the war ended, newspapers had been free to tell the public that the atomic bomb had been built by scientists at Los Alamos, led by Robert Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Kisty’s first reaction: “Dr. Oppenheimer is mad to think this thing will make a bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z On the afternoon of November 16, 1942, Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves stood together in a deep canyon in northern New Mexico. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z No, Oppenheimer said: “I have known him longer and closer than you; his fears that he was being, or might be, undermined in his position were a terror for him.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I got Oppenheimer that job in the first place,” he complained, as though Oppie’s blunder reflected poorly on his own judgment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Army Counter-Intelligence and the FBI still believed Oppenheimer was sneaking information to the Soviets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite his continued admonishments to Oppenheimer to abandon his political “leftwandering,” Oppenheimer found it hard to cease his engagement with liberal causes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As Ernest could not fail to recognize, much of the physics community was lined up behind Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z From that point on, everything would be run from the control room in Oppenheimer’s bomb shelter, six miles from the blast site. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In October 1941, Oppenheimer attended his first meeting of the Uranium Committee. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Where they disagreed was that Lawrence believed that goal had been reached by the bombing of Japan; Oppenheimer, by contrast, feared that the bombs of August had made it more remote than ever. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The next day Philip Morrison, one of Oppenheimer’s former students, removed the plutonium bomb core from a vault in the Los Alamos Tech Area. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Strauss informed Oppenheimer that his security clearance was suspended and urged him to resign quietly from his AEC position. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He had no idea what Oppenheimer and Tatlock had been up to in her apartment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Strauss seethed as Oppenheimer outlined the state of the arms race between America and the Soviet Union. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “We do not operate well when the important facts, the essential conditions, which limit and determine our choices are unknown,” Oppenheimer declared. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer knew that this was a duel the United States could not afford to lose. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of Ernest’s friends and colleagues pondered that heritage after his death, but perhaps the oddest judgment came from Robert Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “A major change was called for in the work on the bomb itself,” Oppenheimer later explained. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The AEC Personnel Security Board hearing into J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance convened on April 12, 1954, in the agency’s dilapidated headquarters, a temporary building on Washington’s National Mall left: over from wartime. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Lost in his studies, Oppenheimer paid little attention to the outside world. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer went to Harvard and then on to Cambridge University to pursue a doctorate in physics. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Among his longtime friends and colleagues, he had seen those who supported Oppenheimer get ritually humiliated by the personnel board, while those who doubted Oppie, like himself, were stigmatized by the scientific community. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Time and time again we had in the technical work almost paralyzing crises,” Oppenheimer later said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The reporter’s source was undoubtedly an FBI file on Robert Oppenheimer, which disclosed Frank’s Communist affiliation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As construction continued, Oppenheimer was often seen strolling the streets of his growing town in jeans and a Western shirt, his thumbs tucked into his belt. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence’s statement had the curious effect of undermining both the other witnesses, while placing his own credibility at the service of a smear of Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Lawrences’ second son, born just after New Year’s Day 1941, was christened Robert, after Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A member of the Berkeley French faculty and a close friend of Oppenheimer’s, Chevalier had approached Oppie about passing information from the bomb program to the Soviets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Not that one,” Oppenheimer said, pointing to the blackboard, “the one underneath.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In his bunker, Oppenheimer leaned against a wooden beam, glancing back and forth from the sky to the scientists at the control panels. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They were not individuals inclined to soft-pedal their views about national politics and national security or, in Neylan’s case, about Robert Oppenheimer, whom Neylan described as “a man so conceited he just shoved God over.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Contemplating the grand tour of Lawrence and Alvarez and the resurgent electioneering of Teller for the Super, Oppenheimer aired his doubts to Conant in a letter affectionately addressed to “Uncle Jim.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer laid out his vision for getting the bomb built. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted Oppenheimer to help get government support for the new bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That soured his first meeting with Oppenheimer, who was invited to the Oval Office on October 25, 1945, to discuss legislation for domestic control of the atom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Indeed, he thought it inappropriate for scientists to engage in political activity of any kind—“political fiddling around,” as he called it in a conversation with Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Thanks to a report from the FBI, army intelligence officers knew all about Oppenheimer’s past associations with Communists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z While sitting in on other professors’ lectures, Oppenheimer was known to squirm impatiently. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That could have been enough to prompt him to bar Oppenheimer from his lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Hoovers fattened dossier on Oppenheimer eventually landed on Eisenhower’s desk, with Strauss near at hand to interpret. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Not long afterward, Stimson named a scientific panel to advise the committee: Ernest Lawrence, Robert Oppenheimer, Arthur Compton, and Enrico Fermi. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer unwound by jumping on his horse, Chico, and taking long rides in the hills. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Ulam ran into the hall and was told that Oppenheimer was holding the first samples of plutonium to arrive at Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Every time I have found a person who felt this way,” he testified, “I have seen Dr. Oppenheimer’s influence on that person’s mind.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Unnerved, Oppenheimer confided that every other registered student had already done the same—the hall was filled with students auditing the course for no credit, struggling to understand the subject matter without risking a grade. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z While it was not unusual for a scientist with an advanced degree to have read widely outside his or her chosen specialty, Oppenheimer’s range of interests was unusually broad. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At Berkeley, he moved into the Faculty Club, a haven for bachelors where Ernest Lawrence—at twenty-eight, Oppenheimer’s senior by nearly three years— was his neighbor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The rumors in Santa Fe were getting wilder and wilder, Oppenheimer told Serber. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer insisted people take Sundays off to rest and recharge. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s tenure at Berkeley would not last long. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The first name on the list was Robert Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor did Oppenheimer share the hauteur that other theoretical physicists displayed toward Lawrence and his crew of preoccupied tinkers. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s arrival at Berkeley was rather less dramatic than his arrival a few months earlier at Caltech, which he had reached after a breakneck automobile drive through the desert punctuated by two serious crack-ups. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Not only were Molly’s feelings now evident, but Oppenheimer s relentless campaigning against Harvard also had found its mark. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “No one with whom I talked showed any great enthusiasm about Oppenheimer as a possible director of the project,” Groves lamented. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer said he’d gotten out of the car to think about physics. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Is it any wonder Oppenheimer handled the challenges of his life so brilliantly? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Now we have our bomb,” Oppenheimer told Leslie Groves in late February. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer started going to political meetings and discussion groups. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer reorganized the entire lab, assigning everyone available to various aspects of the implosion puzzle. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One evening in early 1943—the precise date was never established —the Chevaliers joined Robert and Kitty for dinner at the Oppenheimer home in Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z From left: J. Robert Oppenheimer, newly appointed to head the Manhattan Project’s bomb design lab at Los Alamos; future Nobelist Glenn Seaborg, developing plutonium for the bomb program; and Lawrence inspect the machine’s control console. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Early in the evening, Oppenheimer climbed the steel tower alone. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He told Compton simply, “Oppenheimer has important new ideas.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Strauss made the most of his influence over Lawrence by urging him to appoint Teller to the task force and keep thinkers of the Oppenheimer stripe off it. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At one garden party, he had an unexpected encounter with Robert Oppenheimer, who was in Geneva on other business. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “He caused a lot of trouble,” Oppenheimer’s secretary said of Feynman. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Following Eisenhower’s order, Strauss summoned Oppenheimer to his Washington office for what he expected to be a decisive encounter. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer believed this race could still be prevented. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He found Oppenheimer, and they discussed the weather. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Anderson was being unfair to Compton, who wisely postponed signing Oppenheimer’s statement until he could read the bill, and refused to support it once he had. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Frank Oppenheimer, who was standing outside his brother’s office, remembered thinking, “Thank God it wasn’t a dud.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Moscow was particularly annoyed that no contact had been made with Robert Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s story especially seems like a Hollywood movie. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Speaking of Oppenheimer’s call for candor, he advised the president, “The campaign is dangerous and its proposals fatal.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His artistic taste became their own: “We weren’t supposed to like Tchaikovsky, because Oppenheimer never liked Tchaikovsky,” objected one student, Edwin Uehling. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Among the hearing’s more sinister features was its preoccupation with an encounter between Oppenheimer and his friend Haakon Chevalier just before work began at Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I remember driving up from Palo Alto to San Francisco with L. W. Alvarez and Dr. Vannevar Bush when we discussed Oppenheimer’s activities in the nuclear weapons program,” he stated. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer got out and strolled into the darkness. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That characterization describes perfectly the course of the relationship between Strauss and Robert Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The crazier the rumors got, the more they worried Groves and Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The General Advisory Committee, still chaired by Oppenheimer, was also leaning toward a second lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer did what he could to assist, helping the OSS find recent photographs of Heisenberg. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “If anything happens to Oppenheimer,” he added, “the project will be set back at least six months.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Chevalier was a Berkeley French professor and, along with his wife, a member of the Oppenheimers’ social and intellectual circle. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Strauss stage-managed the AEC hearing into Oppenheimer’s security clearance as he had the campaign of calumny that preceded it. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Actually, theoretical physicists were about to become more powerful than Oppenheimer had ever imagined. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer provided it, warning that a multitude of theoretical and technical questions still remained unresolved; therefore, design work should be initiated immediately if the weapon were to be ready in time to influence the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer followed these terrifying events from his home in California, burning with what he described as “a continuing, smoldering fury” toward Adolf Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I need physics more than friends,” Oppenheimer once told his younger brother. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Eltenton was not sufficiently close to any of them to make contact, but he did know Chevalier and asked him to undertake the initial approach to Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Oppenheimer case left Lawrence with a horror of overt dabbling in the security politics of the time. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer is more unexpected: he’s handsome, with piercing eyes. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z His most troubling conditions were a strangely recurrent viral pneumonia, chronic sinusitis, and the ulcerative colitis that had laid him low the weekend before his scheduled testimony against Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He forged a close relationship with J. Edgar Hoover, hectoring the FBI director to institute ever more intensive surveillance of Oppenheimer’s movements and telephone calls. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s recollection of his own reaction has been oft repeated; he claimed that a verse from the Sanskrit Bhagavad Gita leaped into his mind: “ ‘Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.’ Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They recognized her as Jean Tatlock, a former girlfriend of Oppenheimer’s and a member of the Communist Party. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It could have been the greatest moment in the partnership of Lawrence and Oppenheimer; the unveiling of earthshaking experimental findings with solid theoretical underpinnings. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer, who was Jewish, still had family in Germany, as well as Jewish friends from his student days. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer was uncomfortable with the entire discussion, for he considered the question of the bomb’s deployment to be outside the scientists’ expertise. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Soviet memos and cables from the time show that the KGB never gave up hope of cultivating Oppenheimer—but never made any progress, either. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The document, which read like a criminal indictment, covered Oppenheimer’s associations with liberals, leftists, and supposed Communist front groups, as well as his purported efforts to stifle the Super program. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Oppenheimer case did more than heighten the conflict between scientists and bureaucracy; it also caused a deep rift within the scientific community that would not be healed for years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As soon as the guests arrived, Oppenheimer announced it was time to mix a batch of his famous martinis. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Robert Oppenheimer was destined to become the most prominent victim of the witch hunt. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer sensed he was being watched, but he never guessed how closely. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That confidence paid dividends when the board turned its attention to Robert Serber, who had been Oppenheimer’s right-hand man in theoretical physics at Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer returned to Los Alamos, feeling what he described to a friend as “a profound grief, and a profound perplexity about the course we should be following.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s scientists had not yet built an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The cop shook Oppenheimer awake and demanded an explanation. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer leaned forward and peered into the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That idea was parried by Oppenheimer, who argued that the “discouragement of the Berkeley group would result in the loss of something valuable to the national scientific health.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Back in his office, Lawrence asked Oppenheimer to join them. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was also at odds with the facts, and with Oppenheimer’s own judgment as he relayed it a few years later to Lawrence’s biographer, Flerbert Childs. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Alvarez told Oppenheimer that uranium atoms split in two—scientists were calling it fission. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As Oppenheimer’s position on the Super evolved from skepticism to outright opposition, Strauss’s opinion of Oppie darkened steadily, like a cloud heralding a thunderstorm. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer and Langan might both be geniuses, but in other ways, they could not be more different. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Finally, he confessed to Oppenheimer that he was so thoroughly at sea he would have to drop the course. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When they were alone in the fields, Oppenheimer explained his work with the Uranium Committee. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a chemist, not a physicist, with an intellectual temperament much closer to Oppenheimer’s than to Lawrence’s. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the driver’s seat was a very thin young physics professor named Robert Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside the Oval Office, Oppenheimer put on his hat and coat. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Robert Oppenheimer and World War II. Salk found a vaccine that prevented polio, and Oppenheimer helped create the bombs that were dropped on Japan and ended the war. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Physicists at the Radiation Faboratory and elsewhere picked away at the secrets of uranium fission all that year, trying to answer Oppenheimer’s questions as well as others more fundamental. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Oppenheimer believes that this method will not work,” wrote Wallace. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, testifying at Oppenheimer’s security trial, he delivered a blunter assessment: “Pretty foggy thinking,” he called it. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But it wasn’t only events in the United States that caught Oppenheimer’s attention—he was also alarmed by the violent rise of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party in Germany. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Pearl Harbor was a turning point for Robert Oppenheimer, too. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Los Alamos lab, recently established under Oppenheimer’s leadership, tripled to 40 kilograms its estimate of the quantity of U-235 needed for a bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It happened because the work at Los Alamos was proving even more difficult than Oppenheimer had expected. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Neutron stars would not be detected until 1967 and hard evidence of black holes not found until the twenty-first century, underscoring Oppenheimer’s achievement and the tragedy of his curiously unfulfilled career. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer couldn’t work on the Manhattan Project until he got security clearance from the army. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z On the designated evening, Robert showed up at the club with his parents, who proudly introduced their son as J. Robert Oppenheimer. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z A more complicated case, though one that unfolded outside the AEC’s security process, involved Frank Oppenheimer, a talented physicist who had received his PhD from Caltech but lacked his older brother’s theoretical profundity. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer was stunned by Truman’s confidence—unjustified confidence, Oppenheimer believed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Within perhaps a week,” recalled a student, “there was on the blackboard in Robert Oppenheimer’s office a drawing—a very bad, an execrable drawing—of a bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer complained that Secretary of State Byrnes didn’t seem to understand the implications of the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In those first years of joint bachelorhood, Lawrence and Oppenheimer were virtually inseparable. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z From some of the nation’s leading scientists would come denunciations of Oppenheimer, veiled and overt, among them Edward Teller’s assertion that “I personally would feel more secure if public matters would rest in other hands.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Back in Los Alamos, Oppenheimer recorded his thoughts in a disconsolate letter to Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer recognized that Lawrence’s politics had evolved to reflect those of the people who had become his patrons and friends, men like Alfred Loomis and Jack Neylan. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That morning, at the tower at Trinity, Oppenheimer watched as scientists and army engineers worked together to attach a steel cable to the test bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Ernest would find it very difficult to deal with an Oppenheimer who had acquired a supreme self-confidence in the crucible of war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Ivanov asked Eltenton to talk with Oppenheimer, to subtly feel out his interest in sharing information with the Soviets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z J. Robert Oppenheimer made many enemies with his persistent critique of US nuclear policy and the rush to the Super, but none as implacable as Lewis L. Strauss. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He ordered the doctors to make Oppenheimer eligible for active duty. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer thought of a line from the ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita, a dramatic moment in which the god Vishnu declares: “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A great deal of obloquy fell on Lawrence and his colleagues at the Rad Lab, who had stood united, and virtually alone, against Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Robert Oppenheimer could no more divest himself of political concerns than he could give up music and wine; they were all essential to his method of engaging with the outside world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Robert Wilson expressed a theme echoed by many at Los Alamos: Oppenheimer inspired them to do things they didn’t think they could. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here at great expense,” he moaned to Oppenheimer, “the government has assembled the world’s largest collection of crackpots.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Frank Oppenheimer thought he heard his brother whisper, “It worked.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer chose not to tell General Groves that he’d been approached by the Soviets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The effort to define, or merely understand, the relationship between Lawrence and Oppenheimer consumed the idle hours of many who knew or worked with them. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Serber and his wife packed up their car, drove west, and moved into the apartment above Oppenheimer’s garage. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If both Lawrence and Oppenheimer resigned, there would be little to keep McMillan, Alvarez, and other promising young physicists in Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This was the first step in withdrawing Oppenheimer’s security clearance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The facts Oppenheimer favored disclosing publicly “are of the greatest significance to the general staff of an enemy.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s point made a vivid impression on Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As Oppenheimer acknowledged, he should have reported the approach promptly to Manhattan Project security officials. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Lawrence further assured Groves that, if Oppenheimer failed in his task, he would step in himself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Yet bonds of friendship, colleagueship, and shared travail in the bomb project made it difficult for Lawrence to dismiss Oppenheimer’s disquiet entirely. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Lawrence appeared untroubled by the prospect of continued military oversight of the program, which was where Oppenheimer drew the line. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s work was then rediscovered and extended by a number of people. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Smyth’s concern about the “fear” underlying the Oppenheimer verdict was widely shared in the research community. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Berkeley would be well represented at the trial of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s life and opinions, and entirely on the side of the prosecution. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The willingness of the two universities to share Robert Oppenheimer attested to the scarcity of qualified theoretical physicists in American academia, especially theoreticians of Oppenheimer’s distinction. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s theme was picked up in two concurring opinions issued with the report. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Born in Polish-Ukrainian Galicia, Rabi was the levelheaded physicist who had tartly denounced Strauss’s vendetta against Oppenheimer and had attempted, if fruitlessly, to talk Lawrence and Alvarez down from their starry-eyed pursuit of the Super. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The bond between Ernest Lawrence and Robert Oppenheimer would influence the development of nuclear physics itself, allied strategy in World War II, and civilian and military nuclear policy through the postwar years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When he heard that Hitler was harassing Jewish physicists, Oppenheimer dedicated a portion of his salary to help them escape Nazi Germany. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z For one thing, the relationship between Lawrence and Oppenheimer had become seriously frayed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The results helped convince Oppenheimer that a plutonium implosion bomb might work. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence presented the data, and Oppenheimer followed with a “typically stupefyingly brilliant exposition of its theoretical consequences,” which his hundreds of spectators strained to make out through his “nim-nim-nim” mumbling. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At Berkeley, skepticism about the Super, much less Oppenheimer’s conviction that it should not be pursued at all, “would have been unthinkable.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As a child, Oppenheimer was passionate about rock collecting. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The picture that we now have from Oppenheimer’s work is as follows. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The paper had been written by one of the British scientists working with Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence would provide the instrumentation and nurture the new sources of money and patronage needed to make it ever more powerful; Oppenheimer would provide the intellectual bedrock on which Lawrences machinery would stand. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And now Oppenheimer needed him for an urgent job. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This was Oppenheimer’s intellectual arrogance, his least endearing quality, in action. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z One night, early in the war, Robert Oppenheimer drove to the home of a friend and fellow Berkeley professor, Haakon Chevalier. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It is the emblematic photograph of Ernest Lawrence and Robert Oppenheimer together in the full bloom of their friendship, long before their personal relations became soured by rivalry, suspicion, and politics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer begged for just a few more days. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He suggested starting with a colleague of his at Berkeley, Robert Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Electricity. Decent lighting. It’s not climate-controlled, but it could be worse. At least I’m not in the desert like Oppenheimer.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Given Lawrence’s relationship with both Oppenheimer and Strauss, it was inevitable that he would be drawn into their conflict. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer arrived at the gate of the Tech Area each morning at 7:30, flashed his white badge, and walked to his office. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z For all its undoubted sincerity, Oppenheimer’s letter displayed a brazen disingenuousness, perhaps its author’s chief character flaw. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But the scientists could not shed the suspicion that someone was throwing sand in the gears, and they thought they knew who: Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z To Oppenheimer, Truman’s refusal to even try to forge a genuine partnership with the Soviet Union for the control of nuclear weapons was a tragic lost opportunity. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The next morning, at ten-thirty, Oppenheimer walked into the Oval Office. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z On July 11 Oppenheimer kissed his wife goodbye and drove out to the desert. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Feynman’s mind flashed back to his talk with Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, as he felt weighed down by his failure to keep the Rad Lab above the turmoil of the Oppenheimer case, illness began to get the better of him. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For Oppenheimer, a genuine bohemian and a Jew, membership was out of the question. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “So we went to Oppenheimer,” Brady recalled of one such occasion, “and Lawrence hardly finished the first sentence when Oppie said, ‘No, no, no, no, no. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “He was a very impractical fellow,” one of Oppenheimer’s friends later said. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “It is desired that clearance be issued for the employment of Robert Oppenheimer without delay,” ordered Groves. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, throughout the thirties, Oppenheimer swam upstream against a genteel anti-Semitism in the professions and academia. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The question stopped Oppenheimer in his tracks, for, like every other habitue of the Rad Lab, he knew of Ernest’s ingrained suspicion of anything that smacked of politics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Teller’s obsessive personality created a managerial dilemma for Norris Bradbury, the able Berkeley-trained physicist who had succeeded Oppenheimer as Los Alamos director. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Robert Oppenheimer’s younger brother, Frank, also a physicist, helped prepare for the test at Trinity. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a fine view, but Oppenheimer couldn’t seem to stay focused on the date. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But the truth was that Oppenheimer had no desire to return to Harvard, which as a student he had found intellectually stimulating but socially isolating. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Groves and Oppenheimer agreed to meet again at one in the morning to assess the situation. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The discussions were cut short by a memo from Secretary of War Stimson, which Oppenheimer distributed in early May. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Groves asked Oppenheimer to join him in Chicago a week later for further discussion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer, who had earlier tendered his acceptance, felt obliged to show up. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In Washington, D.C., a panel of scientists—including Robert Oppenheimer—analyzed the results. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost every sentence included the word bomb, which began to worry Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z On July 5, Oppenheimer sent a telegram to top Manhattan Project physicists in Berkeley and Chicago: “Any time after the fifteenth would be a good time for our fishing trip.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oppenheimer and I were pleading with General Groves that there had to be a test because the whole scheme was so uncertain. But General Groves said he couldn’t afford to lose all that plutonium.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Groves also liked the fact that Oppenheimer had been born in the United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Whatever the enemy may be planning, American science will be equal to the challenge,” Roosevelt wrote to Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer had doubts about how well he might fit in on campus—“any fruitful future in Berkeley would have to depend ... on a certain mutual respect for nonidentical points of view.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On stage a few minutes later, Leslie Groves handed Oppenheimer a scroll— a certificate of thanks from the government to Oppenheimer and the Los Alamos staff. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder if this was what it was like for Oppenheimer and his team of scientists when they were working on the bomb. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z But if Army Counter-Intelligence couldn’t get rid of Oppenheimer, they could certainly let him know how they felt. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s repute as a theoretician was growing, but the rise in Lawrence’s professional stature was on a higher plane entirely. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s own lectures, according to a student named Edward Gerjuoy, were lightning bursts of ideas, theories, and math on the blackboard. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer in particular had evolved; he no longer was the aloof, self-absorbed intellectual who had gone off to Los Alamos anxious to prove himself in the world beyond theoretical physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “It was obvious,” Teller said later, “that Oppenheimer did not want to support further weapons work in any way.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s point was more nuanced than it might have seemed on the surface; he was calling for introspection among scientists that had been lacking—and perhaps unnecessary—before the power of fission was unleashed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Even before Strauss’s appointment was made public, he began moving against Oppenheimer, impelled by the physicist’s increasingly outspoken campaign for a public debate on nuclear policy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Sitting in on a Berkeley seminar given by a group of Oppenheimer students in 1940, Fermi found himself unable to follow the mumbled discussion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Standing by the blackboard in his office at LeConte Hall, attended by his ever-present students, Oppenheimer declared promptly, “That’s impossible,” and proceeded to demonstrate mathematically why Hahn and Strassmann must have been mistaken. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “It is our hope that in years to come we may look at this scroll, and all that it signifies, with pride,” Oppenheimer told the crowd. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence was not alone among the Berkeley crowd in disparaging Oppenheimer’s character. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer, writing for the group, dispatched to Washington a dispirited one-page memo on June 16 memorializing their conclusion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “If we postpone,” Oppenheimer said, “I’ll never get my people up to pitch again.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The government was determined to protect Oppenheimer and his staff—and their bomb-making secrets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence “became a relatively prominent guy during the thirties, and rightly so,” Oppenheimer would recall. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer had received his doctorate only two years earlier under Max Born at Gottingen, where he had communed with such rising stars of quantum mechanics as Werner Heisenberg and Paul Ehrenfest. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The work being done by Oppenheimer and others on the Uranium Committee was top secret. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He was intimating that physics at Berkeley might have to continue without Robert Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Truman’s secretary of state, Dean Acheson, declared himself flummoxed by Oppenheimer’s words. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Robert Oppenheimer was the leading theoretician in the nation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer was given an army physical—and failed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He and Oppenheimer chatted at lunch, then Oppenheimer invited Groves back to his office for a longer talk. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I never saw a man in such an extremely nervous state as Oppenheimer,” Wallace wrote in his diary that night. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As long as Strauss remained a minority voice on the Atomic Energy Commission, however, he could only chafe powerlessly at Oppenheimer’s exalted role as the AEC’s leading scientific advisor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He brought his misgivings to Oppenheimer, who confided that he shared them and showed Bethe his “Uncle Jim” letter, explaining that Conant also opposed the Super. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The story of Oppenheimer’s appointment to be scientific director of the Manhattan Project twenty years later is perhaps an even better example of this difference. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z And in the summer of 1944, Oppenheimer needed all the help he could get. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At Oppenheimer’s office on the Berkeley campus, they began designing the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the heat of the moment, Ernest offered a shocking judgment of Oppenheimer that would come to haunt them both. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Now, the following people are technically able down there at Oak Ridge,” said Oppenheimer, naming scientists Feynman should talk to. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer plainly did not agree to it, and there is no evidence that Lawrence or Alvarez even knew they had been mentioned until years later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Among those who let their imaginations roam was Robert Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer, who could tell they were witnessing a theatrical display of military authority, was unfazed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It had taken Joseph Stalin’s physicists just four years to reach nuclear parity with the United States—about the time frame predicted by Robert Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Lawrence largely approved of Oppenheimer’s draft of the communique but requested one telling change. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Julius Robert Oppenheimer had arrived on the Berkeley campus almost exactly one year after Ernest Lawrence, and with every bit as much thunder. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At the San Francisco station, they watched as Oppenheimer was greeted by a tall woman with dark hair. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They exchanged a few anodyne words—“it certainly was not unpleasant,” recalled Oppenheimer, who stayed only briefly and left first. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I have written over it. As one of Oppenheimer’s students put it: “Everyone sort of regarded him, very affectionately, as being sort of nuts.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I neither can nor will do so,” Oppenheimer told Teller. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Years later, Oppenheimer would still remember that as “an awful moment.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer was busy recruiting scientists for Los Alamos—but that didn’t mean he knew for sure an atomic bomb was technically possible. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As he observed, if Vandenberg truly harbored doubts about Oppenheimer, why would he have appointed him to the committee in the first place? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A week later, Oppenheimer was back in Washington to continue his talks with top officials. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s dissembling would be exploited by Strauss and Robb to discredit virtually his every word, becoming a linchpin of the campaign to destroy him. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was a prescient question, for Frank Oppenheimer’s association with Lawrence’s lab would end abruptly, following the disclosure of his earlier membership in the Communist Party. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z From their car seats, Groves and Oppenheimer peered through the gate. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But Oppenheimer knew that it wasn’t just his reputation and career on the line at Los Alamos—it was the outcome of the biggest war in human history. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And Neylan’s visceral disdain for Robert Oppenheimer—“so conceited that he just shoved God over”—may well have contributed to the bitter break between Lawrence and Oppenheimer that soured their last years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s compulsive polymathy, however, pointed to his one outstanding intellectual flaw: he lacked the patience to make a single subject his own. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He displayed the same impatience with Oppenheimer, who expressed his personal torment over the bomb while delivering the Arthur D. Little Memorial Lecture at MIT in 1947. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Why do you fool with these politics?” he once asked Oppenheimer’s younger brother, Frank, a member of the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer first met Groves on October 8, on the Berkeley campus. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Strauss’s enmity for Oppenheimer deepened as the latter’s opposition to the hydrogen bomb solidified. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But after Serber’s report and his lunch with Oppenheimer, he knew he would be returning to Berkeley empty-handed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “It was like you, Ernest, and very sweet, that you should whisper to me so comforting words about the Wednesday meeting,” Oppenheimer wrote him a few days later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z After Lawrence brought his bride, Molly, to Berkeley, Oppenheimer remained an intimate part of the family circle. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Even Oppenheimer’s personal driver and bodyguard—the one Groves insisted he have—was actually an undercover agent. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “The position of Heisenberg in German physics is essentially unique,” Oppenheimer said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer did a lot of the recruiting personally. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was correct about the others: not even Oppenheimer had read the actual text before drafting the message to which Lawrence and Fermi had blindly signed their names. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Like all the scientists involved in the discovery, Oppenheimer was fired up by new ideas in physics, deeper glimpses into the weird inner world of atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone took seats, except for Robert Oppenheimer and his assistant, Robert Serber. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you go on up the canyon,” Oppenheimer suggested, pointing east, “you come out on top of the mesa, and there’s a boys’ school there which might be a usable site.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There is some likelihood that Lawrence had heard about it too, in which case he would have known that Frank Oppenheimer s repeated denials of party membership were false. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Groves had a gut feeling Oppenheimer could rise to the challenge. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Robert Oppenheimer lifted the receiver to his ear. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The more he thought about it—and the more potential candidates he met—the more convinced he became that he wanted Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer and Tatlock went inside, had dinner and drinks, then drove to her apartment, and entered together. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z All Oppenheimer could do was build his own bomb as quickly as possible. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then World War II intervened and Oppenheimer himself became closely involved in the atom bomb project. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer recognized that their social milieus were fated to remain distinct. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer continued to teach physics, but he felt restless, like he should be doing something to help stop Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One other important event occurred during Groves’s visit to Berkeley: his first encounter with J. Robert Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Pash believed that Oppenheimer was either handing secrets directly to the Soviets, “or he may be making that information available to his other contacts”—Jean Tatlock, for instance. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He had no idea why Oppenheimer would want to see him. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I saw Robert Oppenheimer running excitedly down a corridor holding a small vial in his hand,” Ulam said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer got off the train in Washington, D.C., carrying a report with his recommendations for the future. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z On October 16, 1945, Oppenheimer officially resigned as director of Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The RSC got him down to writing a single piece about Robert Oppenheimer, often described as the father of the nuclear bomb. Staging Oppenheimer's nuclear story 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Dr. Oppenheimer, 29, is a third-year emergency medicine resident at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the co-founder and chief medical officer of Transformative, a medical software company in Cambridge. Elizabeth Cruikshank, Joshua Oppenheimer 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Oppenheimer, a Texas native who was educated at Harvard and now lives in Europe, spoke twice by telephone about the film, once before its release last summer and again this week. The Carpetbagger: ‘Act of Killing’ and Oscar Voters’ Aversion to Violence 2014-02-21T13:30:52Z Specifically, early signs are pointing to a runoff between Joshua Oppenheimer, artful revealer of war criminals hiding in plain sight, and a songstress — with the songstress in the lead. Will It Be a Music Documentary or One About War Criminals? 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Oppenheimer, 40, describes that Academy Award-nominated film not as documentary but “a delirium.” ‘The Look of Silence’ changes the perspective on Indonesian genocide 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s strange approach — both investigative and outré — rewards one’s patience. ‘The Act of Killing’: a haunting take on Indonesia genocide 2013-08-01T22:56:25Z Oppenheimer's tragedy, as written by Monk, is Greek: it is the drama of a man destroyed by his own hubris. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z The day I saw "Oppenheimer," I also watched a Congressional hearing on Afghanistan. "Barbie" vs. "Oppenheimer": U.S. foreign policy has a lot to learn from this summer’s blockbusters 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z “Oppenheimer” is about the moral cost of unleashing upon mankind the most terrifying and powerful weapon it has ever known: Murphy’s gigantic blue eyes. ‘Barbenheimer’ Isn’t a Contest. But if It Were, Which Film Would Win? 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z Sherwin took Bird out to dinner, and suggested they join forces on Oppenheimer. Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z The Boston Globe raved that it “stands as an Everest among the mountains of books on the bomb project and Oppenheimer, and is an achievement not likely to be surpassed or equaled.” Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z It's too simplistic Joshua Oppenheimer There’s an intriguing scene in The Look of Silence in which Adi tells his wife, much to her dismay, that he has approached one of his brother’s killers. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z A long article in The New York Times Magazine by Mark Oppenheimer suggested that Mr. Flew, his mental faculties in decline, had been manipulated by his co-author and other Christian proselytizers. Antony Flew, 87, Philosopher and Ex-Atheist, Dies 2010-04-17T02:21:00Z Steiner’s time around Oppenheimer and other scientists added to his ambivalence about the morality of art and the humanities. Eminent man of letters George Steiner dead at age 90 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z In the earlier, formative chapters, which are better than the book’s treks over the best-known, most public part of Oppenheimer’s adult life, Mr. Monk also illustrates how easily Oppenheimer’s snobbery trumped anybody else’s. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z A vivid image of dislocation isn’t unexpected in a work about the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, often called “the father of the atomic bomb.” The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The equanimity with which Herzog and Oppenheimer’s movie frames that certainty is strangely comforting. ‘Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds’ Review: It’s Raining Mysteries 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z I assure you that knowing this spoils none of the turns making "Oppenheimer" a complete masterpiece, but it's something a person should consider when deciding which movie to see first. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z As a movie fan, “he understands the significance of that,” Mr. Oppenheimer said, even if his death squad colleagues and the Indonesian government “hate the film, as they should.” The Carpetbagger: A Death-Squad Leader Feels Honored 2014-01-16T17:23:25Z Nor is this Oppenheimer the Prometheus figure he styled himself in real life. Review: ‘Doctor Atomic’ Brings the Bomb Home to New Mexico 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z A debate about which order to see them in — “Barbie” first to start the day off light, or “Oppenheimer” first, to end on a more cheerful note — hasn’t been settled. Mark Your Calendars: ‘Barbenheimer’ Is Coming 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer was on his way to meet his parents, Julius and Ella, who had travelled from New York to meet their son because they were worried about his mental health. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z This action casts a fuschia glow around the sexism in "Oppenheimer," which Nolan doesn't downplay. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z On the other hand, as a successful man in a patriarchal nation, Oppenheimer was denied feelings. "Barbie" vs. "Oppenheimer": U.S. foreign policy has a lot to learn from this summer’s blockbusters 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z They failed to prove that Oppenheimer was a Soviet spy, but they destroyed his character. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z The truth is that sex was a characteristic of early Hindu civilizations in a way that was arguably more explicit than any scene in "Oppenheimer." Defending that "Oppenheimer" sex scene as a Hindu woman who delved into my religion's sacred truths 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Fictional witnesses are the mechanism by which readers gain insight into Oppenheimer, the historical subject. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z By inventing a number of characters who brush against Oppenheimer at various points in his life, Hall offers a panoramic vision of an enigmatic man whom we know mostly through his cataclysmic works. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Yes, the A-bomb brought a quick end to World War II, but Dwight Eisenhower and Robert Oppenheimer both believed Japan’s defeat was imminent without the bomb. Coming Close to Nuclear Holocaust 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z It’s at Berkeley that the trajectory of Oppenheimer’s life dramatically shifts, after news breaks that Germany has invaded Poland. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z The movie was inspired by Mr. Oppenheimer’s 2011 book, “Eruptions That Shook the World,” an inquiry into the impact of worldwide volcanic activity. Review: ‘Into the Inferno,’ Staring Down the Terrors of Nature 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z In “The Look of Silence,” the filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer enables the brother of one of the victims to confront the men who took his sibling’s life; their reactions are, once again, difficult to unsee. Netflix and Blizzard: What to Watch During the Storm 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z After the company hired the Pancasila Youth to menace the workers, Mr. Oppenheimer said, they swiftly dropped their demands. Indonesians Who Helped Make Films About Killings Face Safety Fears 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z “I realized quickly I wasn’t getting sober introspection,” Oppenheimer told The Times in 2012 of his decision to film re-enactments instead of interviews. 'Act of Killing' helmer Joshua Oppenheimer among MacArthur recipients 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Mark Hotton, a one-time stock broker for Oppenheimer & Co., was arrested on Monday. Producers sue over alleged 'Rebecca' musical scam 2012-10-19T17:26:16Z In "Oppenheimer," the only accountability he faces is damage to his career, his ego and his sense of self. "Barbie" vs. "Oppenheimer": U.S. foreign policy has a lot to learn from this summer’s blockbusters 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z The 1927 “On the Quantum Theory of Molecules” which he co-wrote with Max Born, may not have been one of Born’s greatest hits, but it became one of Oppenheimer’s better-known works. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z The company printed the Heinz baked beans labels, among other things, but Oppenheimer took on the Lyons lithographs and kept the unions sweet when they bridled at artists producing their own prints. Bawden and battenberg: the Lyons teashop lithographs 2013-07-12T12:00:00Z He also added sound samples, including tsunami destruction reports and the voices of J. Robert Oppenheimer and Lyndon B. Johnson. The Bay Citizen: Eiko and Koma Talk About ?Fragile,? Their 2012-03-16T06:25:40Z "Stewart's personal life is a far cry from the cheery portrait of the epitome of household perfection she paints for her fans in her writings and public appearances," Oppenheimer wrote in the book's description. Martha Stewart's brand has always been subversive 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z “Amy” and “The Look of Silence” have been mopping up awards, raising the prospect, as the Bagger has noted, that Mr. Oppenheimer might again lose an Oscar to a songstress. The Power of Documentaries on the Oscar Trail 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Suddenly, screens begin showing nuclear explosions, and the giant, troubled face of J Robert Oppenheimer – the physicist who worked on the atomic bomb, then agonised over what he had created. Linkin Park: 'We're famous, but we're not celebrities' 2011-07-07T22:30:00Z The premise of “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s biopic, is straightforward: tell the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist known as the “father of the atomic bomb.” Who’s Who in ‘Oppenheimer’: A Guide to the Real People and Events 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Similarly, in Ensisheim, a commune in the Alsace region of France, a meteorite that landed in 1492 was seen as “an email from God,” Oppenheimer says. ‘Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds’ Review: It’s Raining Mysteries 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Sherwin began working on the book in the late 1970s with an hours-long horseback ride to the mountainside ranch in New Mexico where Oppenheimer once lived. Martin J. Sherwin, Pulitzer-winning scholar, dead at 84, 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z The program mentions that the show is equally indebted to the exploits of the atomic scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer. ‘Worlds Fair Inn’ Review: You Can Check Out Anytime You Like 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z In his first term at Cambridge, Oppenheimer – awkward, thwarted and only 21 – left an apple on Blackett's desk poisoned with toxic chemicals. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z As Murphy's Oppenheimer tells his Berkeley students about the occasionally contradictory nature of quantum mechanics, "It's paradoxical, but it works." We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z Involved to varying degrees in leftist causes, these three were, like Oppenheimer, accused of being either communists or communist sympathizers. The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The groom, 31, works in New York as an associate director specializing in technology equity research at Oppenheimer & Company, an investment bank in New York. Manasee Atre, Vinod Srinivasaraghavan 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer has the killers on video tape doing just that — he appears to have discovered these stomach-turning characters around 10 years ago, while researching The Act of Killing. The Look of Silence: second Act of Killing as horrifically gripping as first - Venice film festival review 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Consistent with Nolan's aesthetic, "Oppenheimer" is darker despite the filmmaker's color usage to not only differentiate between timelines and perspectives but steep us in the political and social energy of each era. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer: Not even the emotion of a poet? Werner Herzog in North Korea: “We had a deeper understanding because of the quest for reunification” 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Appointed to lead the scientific work of the Manhattan Project in 1942, Oppenheimer was considered a bizarre choice. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-11-16T10:06:01Z Mr. Ames, a partner at the investment house Oppenheimer & Co., died in March. Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips Take Different Paths to ‘Sold!’ 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Unlike many Nolan movies, “Oppenheimer” is dominated not by action spectacle, but by tense conversations. For ‘Oppenheimer,’ These Fans Go to Great Lengths for Just 30 Screens 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z When my mom sent me an article on the Hindu nationalists' criticism of the questionable sex scene in "Oppenheimer," I immediately defended the Western approach to sex. Defending that "Oppenheimer" sex scene as a Hindu woman who delved into my religion's sacred truths 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z “Oppenheimer,” Hollywood has not captured the popular imagination in this way for quite some time. In ‘Barbie’ vs. ‘Oppenheimer,’ the Real Winner May Be the Box Office 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Recent reads included a biography of Malcolm X and another of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. Author Chris Hedges: 'This is what corporate exploitation does to you' 2012-06-20T22:00:07Z Mr. Ames, who died in March, was a partner at Oppenheimer & Company, and was on the boards of institutions like the Whitney Museum of American Art. From Bruce Nauman, More Contrapposto Studies 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer is considered an innovator in the documentary form. 'Act of Killing' helmer Joshua Oppenheimer among MacArthur recipients 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z The seven viewpoint characters fail to hold the center, and Oppenheimer remains as vague and enigmatic at the end as he was at the start. Review | A novel attempt to understand the father of the atomic bomb 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer is tightlipped about his next project but tells me it will not be about Indonesia, not least because it would now be difficult for him to return there. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z The passage Oppenheimer haltingly translates describes the murders of Hasan’s first five victims, whose bodies were thrown into a well on a palm oil plantation. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z “The documents are 50 years old,” Sifton said, riling himself up in support of Oppenheimer. When the Oscars really matter: A nominee tries to show how the U.S. aided a genocide 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Oppenheimer also recently completed “The Look of Silence,” a follow-up to his earlier work. 'Act of Killing' helmer Joshua Oppenheimer among MacArthur recipients 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z At one point he accuses the Tenth Doctor: "You are the destroyer of worlds," which is almost identical to the phrase Robert Oppenheimer used when he exploded the first atomic bomb. Michael Scott's top 10 Doctor Who creatures 2013-03-19T16:23:01Z “Trinity,” a recent book by Louisa Hall, takes up J. Robert Oppenheimer, the troubled genius who invented the atomic bomb, in 1945, and then lobbied against nuclear proliferation until his death, in 1967. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z There have been other biographies or books about Oppenheimer, but none so ardently driven to understand this tragically flawed man from the inside. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z The festival’s masterpiece, Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Look of Silence,” is also its darkest. The Human Rights Watch Film Festival Explores Social Justice 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z I ask Adi about the impact of Oppenheimer’s two films in Indonesia. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z “I often thought when I was making the film with so much time passing that no one will care anymore,” Oppenheimer said. Film Gives Indonesia View of Bloody, Obscured Past 2013-10-04T13:50:53Z Nolan avoids that trap by insistently putting Oppenheimer into a larger context, notably with the black-and-white portions. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z When Oppenheimer is in his prime the colors are brightest, and the wide vistas of New Mexico pop off the screen. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z The detonation of the atomic bomb did not herald, as Bohr believed and Oppenheimer hoped it would, the end of all wars. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z "After the war people such as Oppenheimer who had been responsible for creating the bomb wanted an international policy to make sure it would never be used again," Monk says. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z When Sellars has chosen to focus on historical figures, such as Richard Nixon or Robert Oppenheimer, he made a new opera about them as a way of better understanding their inner lives. Mozart in Trump Tower, and the art of getting political onstage 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z “Oppenheimer” isn’t the summer’s only work of popular culture in which atomic bombs detonate. ‘Cat Kid Comic Club’ Review: Tiny Frogs, Big Imaginations 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer couldn't help himself from eviscerating others, especially his intellectual inferiors, in public. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Oppenheimer Rated R for disturbing images, and adult language and behavior. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z “There was a lot of screaming and happiness, and then a lot of tweets from people in the crew,” Mr. Oppenheimer, 39, said by phone Thursday morning. The Carpetbagger: A Death-Squad Leader Feels Honored 2014-01-16T17:23:25Z The first was Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb and victim of America's cold-war witch hunts. Best science books of 2012 2012-11-29T15:05:01Z Oppenheimer's movie tracks down the perpetrators of Indonesia's state-sanctioned 60s genocide and encourages them to recreate their crimes as scenarios from Hollywood movies, a project they embrace all too readily. This week's new film events 2013-06-22T05:00:15Z Hall never enters Oppenheimer’s perspective, a wise choice but also a limiting one. Review | A novel attempt to understand the father of the atomic bomb 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Else returned to the topic in his 2007 documentary, “Wonders Are Many: The Making of ‘Doctor Atomic,’” which chronicles the composer John Adams’s opera about Oppenheimer. ‘Oppenheimer’ Fans Are Rediscovering a 40-Year-Old Documentary 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z The current auction high is the $57.5 million achieved in May for the 14.62-carat “Oppenheimer Blue” diamond at Christie’s in Geneva. Art Market Forecast: A Hazy Summer 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z The groom’s father is an endocrinologist in private practice at Oppenheimer Endocrinology in Sioux Falls. Elizabeth Cruikshank, Joshua Oppenheimer 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Photograph: PR “You have to understand that Adi is an exceptional individual in his empathy, his patience and his desire to understand,” says Oppenheimer. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Directors Toby Oppenheimer and Dana Flor spent four years with some of the gang members filming them “as they dealt with harassment, poverty, and violence.” Louis C.K. releases “Check It” documentary about LGBT black-youth street gang 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Our reviewer, Andrea Barrett, says that “Hall has shaped a richly imagined, tremendously moving fictional work. Its genius is not to explain but to embody the science and politics that shaped Oppenheimer’s life.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z He's now been teaching at the university for 20 years, during which time he's written his books on Russell and Oppenheimer. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Mr. Monk’s own book mentions “Thirty Years of Mesons,” a lecture delivered by Oppenheimer in 1966 to the American Physical Society. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z It was once part of the Oppenheimer collection, Christie’s said, referring to the family who built De Beers into the world’s biggest diamond trader. Giant pink diamond from Christie's a cut above the rest 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z “He’s talking to people who are willfully blind to the moral meaning of what they’re saying,” Oppenheimer said. ‘The Look of Silence’ changes the perspective on Indonesian genocide 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Many movie aficionados consider that format the gold standard, and Christopher Nolan, the writer and director of “Oppenheimer,” made it to be seen that way. For ‘Oppenheimer,’ These Fans Go to Great Lengths for Just 30 Screens 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Dyson was chiefly pleased that once back in Princeton, he would “now encounter Oppenheimer with something to say which will interest him.” Freeman Dyson’s Life, Through His Letters 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z It took weeks of tense negotiations, but earlier this week, my daughters reached an agreement regarding the when, where and how for their planned shared "Oppenheimer" and "Barbie" experience. Barbenheimer cheesecake brownies are the darkest, pinkest treat of the summer 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Director Joshua Oppenheimer began the film a decade ago by interviewing survivors. Joshua Oppenheimer: 'Even a mass killer you can love as a human being' 2013-06-20T14:57:23Z “It’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times,” said Michael Moses, who oversaw the release of “Oppenheimer” in his role as the chief marketing officer for Universal Pictures. ‘Barbenheimer’ Is a Huge Hollywood Moment and Maybe the Last for a While 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Bird watched Cillian Murphy do take after take as Oppenheimer, astonished at the actor’s resemblance to the subject he’d spent years studying. Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z The "Pretty Woman" star plays Norman Oppenheimer, a veteran "fixer" in New York's Jewish community who runs into trouble when he tries to win over a visiting Israeli politician, played by Israeli actor Lior Ashkenazi. Gere delights Israeli fans at premier of Israel-U.S. movie 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Since then, the lead singer, Andy Oppenheimer, who is now 57 and works in London as an independent consultant on nuclear weapons and counterterrorism, has performed throughout Europe. Up Close: Talking With Veronica Vasicka, Founder of Minimal Wave 2012-04-11T21:05:26Z Sherwin always knew that the hearing that stripped Oppenheimer of his clearance would be the “epicenter” of the biography, Bird said. Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z I have travelled to Copenhagen to meet Oppenheimer in the spacious, spartan apartment close to the riverfront that he has recently bought with his Japanese partner, Shu. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Joshua Oppenheimer, 39, Copenhagen, Denmark: The documentary filmmaker merges realism and invention to explore difficult and often controversial themes. Meet MacArthur's new 'genius grant' winners 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Mark Oppenheimer writes the Beliefs column for The Times and is an editor of New Haven Review. The Education Issue: Stephen Burt, Poetry’s Cross-Dressing Kingmaker 2012-09-16T00:17:27Z It must have seemed that way to the former owner, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the famed physicist who helped produce the first atomic bomb and who later lost his security clearance in a political witch hunt. In the U.S. Virgin Islands, returning to a changed but resilient St. John 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z But of course, she only exists in the roles of love interest, mother and Oppenheimer's conscience. That "Oppenheimer" sex scene speaks to a larger problem with Christopher Nolan's storytelling 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z These black-and-white sequences define the last third of “Oppenheimer.” ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Bird won a Pulitzer for “American Prometheus,” his biography of Robert Oppenheimer. Spring brings bounty of new titles for book lovers 2014-04-16T21:15:04Z Over green tea, Oppenheimer chooses his words with equal care and, though soft-spoken, exudes the intensity of the truly committed. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z One scientist resigned from the project at that point, but Oppenheimer thought Hiroshima was justifiable according to Bohr's argument. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Sure, you can argue the film being named "Oppenheimer" means it's entirely about him, and all the supporting characters should only act to elevate his story. That "Oppenheimer" sex scene speaks to a larger problem with Christopher Nolan's storytelling 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z One bombmaker with a conscience was J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who directed the Manhattan Project during World War II, which created the first atom bomb. Countdown to Zero: Valerie Plame at the End of the World 2010-08-02T16:30:00Z When Christopher Nolan’s film “Oppenheimer” is released on July 21, it will be the first time many younger Americans encounter the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer is aided in his tale-telling by his secretary, Sally, who dreamed, as a college student with a binge-eating disorder, of writing the Great American Novel. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer uses the term “cognitive dissonance” more than once to describe what he sees as their complex psychological state. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z A central plot point in each movie is a closed hearing in 1954 at which Oppenheimer was stripped of his government security clearance, partly because of past left-wing associations. ‘Oppenheimer’ Fans Are Rediscovering a 40-Year-Old Documentary 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z This lends itself to picturing the surreal Barbieland as the afterlife to the "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" connotations of "Oppenheimer." We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z What is unexpected is the use Hall makes of that image — and of Oppenheimer’s entire public life. The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z When Oppenheimer returned to Indonesia in 2012, he knew the clock was running. ‘The Look of Silence’ changes the perspective on Indonesian genocide 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Joshua Oppenheimer is showing me a copy of a handmade book entitled Dew of Blood. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z The organizers have said investment bank Oppenheimer & Co. signed on as a financial adviser to pull money together. Woodstock 50 festival: Watkins Glen terminates site license 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer is hoping to coast on the buzz of an Oscar nomination to make some headway. When the Oscars really matter: A nominee tries to show how the U.S. aided a genocide 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Other highlights of the festival include live appearances by US podcaster Ira Grass, host of This American Life, rising star Joshua Oppenheimer and legendary sound designer Walter Murch. Jarvis Cocker gears up to be Sheffield Doc/Fest's Man of Steel 2013-06-10T11:49:29Z Murphy “leads with truth, he isn’t an actor who chews the scenery,” said Emily Blunt, who plays the scientist’s wife, Kitty Oppenheimer. The Eyes of Cillian Murphy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z American Genius The rivalries between physicists Werner Heisenberg and Robert Oppenheimer and inventors Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison are revisited in back-to-back new episodes. Monday's TV highlights: Christopher Lee tribute and more 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z Matters came to a head when Oppenheimer initially opposed the building of the "Super", or hydrogen bomb. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z The atomic bomb and what it wrought define Oppenheimer’s legacy and also shape this film. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z And it is Adi that Oppenheimer’s camera tracks as he sets out to confront the leaders of the death squads who murdered Ramli, having gained access to their homes by arranging to test their eyes. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z The notion that any one person was "father of the bomb" is simplistic but Oppenheimer was certainly central to advancing the Allied research effort. Staging Oppenheimer's nuclear story 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z J. Robert Oppenheimer excitedly muses to his Berkeley colleague Haakon Chevalier at a cocktail party. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z Further into the behemoth of a film, in McCarthy-era America, a room full of government officials question Oppenheimer's former communist ties. That "Oppenheimer" sex scene speaks to a larger problem with Christopher Nolan's storytelling 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer wanted to discuss Hickey’s writings, but he admits, “I was also there to see Dave in person before he died. Because I knew that if I didn’t, I would regret it.” Review | How Dave Hickey became one of the most influential art critics in America 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z And he replays Oppenheimer’s familiar, contorted, much-dramatized testimony to the Atomic Energy Commission hearings in 1954, which stripped him of his security clearance and branded him a risk to national security. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z Now, Mr. Oppenheimer, a 40-year-old Texas native based in Denmark, is back with another look at the same killings, albeit from a very different point of view. New York Film Festival: A 'Genius' Grant Winner and His Unblinking Camera 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z It does do that, but it's not obvious that this is a privileged way of understanding, as Monk says, "Oppenheimer himself". Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-11-16T10:06:01Z Joshua Oppenheimer spent years filming accounts of mass killings in the country that took place in the 1960s. No Indonesia return, says director 2014-02-18T11:48:36Z Mr. Oppenheimer began doing so and was dumbfounded by their braggadocio. Indonesians Who Helped Make Films About Killings Face Safety Fears 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z This was Oppenheimer and Harris’ primary objective: to shed biases of the children and the many support workers in the foster care system. 'There are so many biases': inside the American foster care system 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z But sit him in front of an audience, and Oppenheimer commands attention. When the Oscars really matter: A nominee tries to show how the U.S. aided a genocide 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Joshua Oppenheimer, who was nominated for The Act of Killing in 2013, is back in contention with The Look of Silence, a follow-up study of the mid-60s Indonesian massacres and their aftermath. Amy, Going Clear and He Named Me Malala top 2016 Oscars documentary shortlist 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z We can tell that she's stubborn, volatile and complicated but we are more or less told that through Oppenheimer's perspective of her as his love interest. That "Oppenheimer" sex scene speaks to a larger problem with Christopher Nolan's storytelling 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z The introduction to Mr. Monk’s “Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center” cites at least one of them: physics. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z In Oppenheimer’s movies, the perpetrators are only too happy to describe strangling, beating and butchering their victims, not to mention what it’s like to drink the blood of the dead. When the Oscars really matter: A nominee tries to show how the U.S. aided a genocide 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z ‘The Act of Killing,’ a documentary written and directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. ‘The Act of Killing’: a haunting take on Indonesia genocide 2013-08-01T22:56:25Z Mr. Oppenheimer said the episode, which appears in “The Look of Silence,” was the inspiration for both films. Indonesians Who Helped Make Films About Killings Face Safety Fears 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Lemkin, 67, is an executive director for wealth management in the Los Angeles office of Oppenheimer & Company, the investment bank. Polly Segal, Michael Lemkin 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Nolan acknowledged in an interview that the vast majority of moviegoers will not see “Oppenheimer” in what he considers the optimal way. For ‘Oppenheimer,’ These Fans Go to Great Lengths for Just 30 Screens 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Spine-tingling archival film — including some profoundly unsettling footage of a teary J. Robert Oppenheimer — illustrates a timeline of terror that overwhelms the director’s bouncy call for civic engagement. | 'Countdown to Zero': Movies by Victor Nu?ez, Brillante Ma. Mendoza and Lucy Walker 2010-07-22T22:58:00Z Other biographers have seen Oppenheimer at closer range, in living color. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z Herzog and Oppenheimer met with Salon at the Telluride Film Festival, where “Into the Inferno” premiered, to discuss their new film, their favorite volcanoes and where they like to travel. Werner Herzog in North Korea: “We had a deeper understanding because of the quest for reunification” 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z For Oppenheimer, the atomic bomb should never be used again and the H-bomb was too destructive to be justified as a military weapon. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z "Oppenheimer" has yet to be released in Japan because there is no scheduled release date. Warner Bros. apologizes after "Barbenheimer" memes cause controversy in Japan 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Oppenheimer, who last week was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, flew in from Europe for the screenings, and immediately sat down for an interview on Monday. New York Film Festival: A 'Genius' Grant Winner and His Unblinking Camera 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer is running at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon until 7 March. Staging Oppenheimer's nuclear story 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z In "Barbie," America Ferrera's character Gloria tells us that it's impossible to be a woman, while "Oppenheimer" demonstrates that the violence of patriarchy also makes it impossible to be a good man. "Barbie" vs. "Oppenheimer": U.S. foreign policy has a lot to learn from this summer’s blockbusters 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer described the movie as “a documentary of the imagination,” and it revealed not just what happened, but also how the perpetrators view themselves. Documentaries like ‘Casting JonBenet’ mix fact and fiction. That just makes them more honest. 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z At Southampton Central station on my way to meet Monk, I look for the spot where Oppenheimer dropped his suitcase. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z A statue of Oppenheimer and Groves stands outside Fuller Lodge, at the former boys’ school where the scientists gathered during the war. Bringing ‘Doctor Atomic’ to the Birthplace of the Bomb 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer recommends destroying the Uzumaki by setting off a secret nuclear explosion. Very, Very Bad Things, Very, Very Tiny Packages 2011-03-13T22:52:19Z The MacArthur Foundation committee shared the film community’s admiration—a few weeks ago Oppenheimer was given a so-called genius grant, joining a small group of filmmakers who’ve ever been so honored. NYFF: Revisiting Indonesian acts of killing in 'Look of Silence' 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer said that after the explosive test of the atomic bomb, a quote from Hindu scripture came to mind: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” ‘Barbenheimer’ Isn’t a Contest. But if It Were, Which Film Would Win? 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z This time, Oppenheimer tells that story from the point of view of victims—not only allowing their experience to emerge but capturing the survivors as they confront the very people who murdered their loved ones. NYFF: Revisiting Indonesian acts of killing in 'Look of Silence' 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z In “Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds,” Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer ponder the mythic, spiritual gravitational pull of meteors and comets on humanity — and on Herzog, himself. New this week: ‘I Am Greta,’ Chris Stapleton & CMA Awards 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z That being said, perhaps there's an "Oppenheimer" milkshake and trend that is currently in the works... It's the great shake-down: A look inside TikTok's ongoing Grimace Shake and "Barbie" shake trends 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z In "Oppenheimer," when the rules break down and he begins to question the scale of violence that the state is pursuing, he is punished. "Barbie" vs. "Oppenheimer": U.S. foreign policy has a lot to learn from this summer’s blockbusters 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z "Oppenheimer" had a decent showing too with an opening day take of $33 million putting it well on its way ranking among R-rated movies that scored the biggest opening weekend. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z Two films, “The Act of Killing” from Joshua Oppenheimer, and “Camp 14 — Total Control Zone” from Marc Wiese, contemplate almost unimaginable real-life horrors. Critic’s Notebook: The Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2013-06-12T22:54:26Z It is an upsetting, protracted moment in the narrative, so much so that I admitted to Oppenheimer that I wasn’t sure why it had been included. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z “We were stuck … in the hands of a myth,” she says, of herself and Oppenheimer. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z "Oppenheimer" is a serious account of Oppenheimer's rise and his regret over unleashed the atomic bomb on humanity, anchored by Cillian Murphy's fervent, focused performance. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Herzog brings the beauty and provides the on-and-off narration, the probing questions and the occasional glint of characteristic deadpan comedy, but he also relies on Mr. Oppenheimer as an on-camera interpreter. Review: ‘Into the Inferno,’ Staring Down the Terrors of Nature 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z That film’s director, Joshua Oppenheimer, will be one of several guests in conversation at the festival’s meeting place, the Hub, at lower Sydney Town Hall. Sydney film festival: 10 things to see and do 2013-06-05T01:58:00Z Here is a book that ticks off the reactions of Einstein, Planck, Heisenberg, Born and Dirac to Schrödinger’s “wave mechanics,” and shows how remarkably smoothly Oppenheimer insinuated himself into those ranks. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z It was his fascination with our ability to lie to ourselves that first brought Oppenheimer to Indonesia in 2001. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer is part of a class that also includes Alison Bechdel, the acclaimed cartoonist who is known in movie circles for coining the so-called Bechdel Test for substantive female characters on screen. 'Act of Killing' helmer Joshua Oppenheimer among MacArthur recipients 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z But these figures seem designed, in a way I haven’t seen before, to mirror the ambiguous tensions of Oppenheimer’s personality. The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Einstein was surely right when he said of Oppenheimer that he had an unrequited love for the US government. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z A feminist lens might notice Oppenheimer's womanizing as a contradiction within the film. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z “Oppenheimer,” also in its first weekend, is set to make more than $50 million, a thunderous achievement for a dense, three-hour drama. ‘Barbenheimer’ Is a Huge Hollywood Moment and Maybe the Last for a While 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Studio productions have halted, promotions for the summer's biggest blockbusters like "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" have all but ceased and fall TV schedules are being rearranged to accommodate more reality and unscripted shows. "A king's ransom": SAG-AFTRA's Fran Drescher calls out "maniacal" Hollywood CEOs for their "greed" 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z “She completed this book through a torturous time,” said Catherine Oppenheimer, a former City Ballet dancer who met Ms. Homans when both were students at the School of American Ballet. This Ballerina Found History In Her Footsteps 2010-11-20T19:38:00Z However, just because the story is titled "Oppenheimer" doesn't mean one has to adhere to such tunnel vision in storytelling. That "Oppenheimer" sex scene speaks to a larger problem with Christopher Nolan's storytelling 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z The father of four children, Monk has spent 11 years researching, writing and thinking about Oppenheimer's life and so, one suspects, there are very few biographical facts he does not know. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Julia Bullock, her voice warm and her presence daringly prickly, is a richly complex Kitty Oppenheimer. Review: ‘Doctor Atomic’ Brings the Bomb Home to New Mexico 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Monk also writes at length about anti-Semitism and the kinds of Jews who practiced it, with Oppenheimer among them. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z Physicists, and the widows of physicists, were still angry for the casual neglect Oppenheimer had shown to his family. Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer thought it completely justifiable that the allies get the bomb before the Germans. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z A quota system applied to Jews in 1922, when Oppenheimer arrived there. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z There’s a lot Oppenheimer doesn’t see, and a lot we don’t see. The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z As the actor approached — dressed in Oppenheimer’s brown, baggy 1940s-era suit and wide tie — Bird couldn’t help himself. Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z “I realized what was killing my friends was not just poison, but fear,” Mr. Oppenheimer said. Indonesians Who Helped Make Films About Killings Face Safety Fears 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Bird shared a Pulitzer in 2005 for "American Prometheus," his magisterial biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. 'Good Spy' scrutinizes Middle East CIA officer Robert Ames 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer: With volcanology, it integrates many other disciplines: archaeology, obviously, anthropology, climatology and the whole hazard and risk side of it. Werner Herzog in North Korea: “We had a deeper understanding because of the quest for reunification” 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z That stance made Oppenheimer a target in the McCarthy era, spurring his enemies to paint him as a Communist sympathizer. Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z When she appeared as Kitty Oppenheimer in a new staging of that work this summer at Santa Fe Opera, Ms. Bullock brought new complexity to the role: flintiness, obsession, intelligence, sensuality. 5 Classical Music Faces to Watch This Season 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The first of Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentaries looks at the individuals who took part in the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66. Fight the power: documentaries to unleash the activist in you 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Friday’s statement did not say how much money Oppenheimer had obtained. Woodstock 50 festival announces new funding to get show back on 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The full BBC interview with Joshua Oppenheimer will be published on Thursday . No Indonesia return, says director 2014-02-18T11:48:36Z Mr. Oppenheimer and his collaborators pose it with renewed urgency and poignancy, and also suggest the ways that, in Indonesia, forgiveness is still premature. Review: ‘The Look of Silence’ Confronts Individuals and Ideology of Indonesian Massacre 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z “I feel like Oppenheimer sometimes. I’ve released some kind of monster.” How Do You Write Down a Scratching, Crunching Violin ‘Chop’? 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Before making the movie, “we were always afraid,” he said, with Oppenheimer translating. When the Oscars really matter: A nominee tries to show how the U.S. aided a genocide 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z “The Look of Silence,” a documentary directed by the American filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer and an anonymous Indonesian collaborator, is a painful, profoundly empathetic work of moral reckoning. Review: ‘The Look of Silence’ Confronts Individuals and Ideology of Indonesian Massacre 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z They have secrets, as Oppenheimer did, and are deeply conflicted about the necessity of keeping them. The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z In fact, the "Gita "that Oppenheimer invests his mind in is derived from a scene in the "Mahabharata." Defending that "Oppenheimer" sex scene as a Hindu woman who delved into my religion's sacred truths 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Documentary-maker Joshua Oppenheimer competes with “The Look of Silence,” a sequel to his powerful investigation of Indonesian political violence, “The Act of Killing.” Pacino, Dafoe set for Venice Film Festival 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Literally convulsing, he is overwhelmed by ghosts and shame, a reckoning brought on by participating in Oppenheimer’s elaborate psychodrama about Indonesia’s historical genocide. ‘The Act of Killing’: a haunting take on Indonesia genocide 2013-08-01T22:56:25Z Typically, in literary fiction, epigraphs are gloomy, perhaps some Hannah Arendt or Robert Oppenheimer or Nietzsche. Jeanette Winterson’s Playful New Novel Offers Thoughts on Mad Science and Sexbots 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z But before all that, in 1981, he made a documentary about Oppenheimer, the scientist whose bony visage graced the covers of midcentury magazines, and the bomb. ‘Oppenheimer’ Fans Are Rediscovering a 40-Year-Old Documentary 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Even when Davey learns that her new home once belonged to J. Robert Oppenheimer, she forgoes a walk-through with a Geiger counter in favor of volunteering at a hospital. Movie Review: ‘Tiger Eyes,’ Directed by Lawrence Blume 2013-06-07T03:01:07Z When Monk looked through 296 boxes of private papers, he found "an abundance of material that testifies to his many-faceted brilliance … but little that shows Oppenheimer exhibiting ordinary emotions with his fellow human beings". A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z “Trinity” consists of seven testimonials, presented in chronological order, from marginal figures in Oppenheimer’s life. Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z "I've just seen a man destroy himself on the witness stand," the lawyer who cross-examined Oppenheimer at this hearing told his wife that evening. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z This format, in which “Oppenheimer” is available on more than 700 screens globally, has much to recommend it: high resolution, excellent sound. For ‘Oppenheimer,’ These Fans Go to Great Lengths for Just 30 Screens 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z The hype around “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” could rekindle a love for moviegoing, Sanders said, but there might be few titles left to capitalize on it. ‘Barbenheimer’ Is a Huge Hollywood Moment and Maybe the Last for a While 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z "I pitched eight plays telling the whole history of physics in the last century. They laughed and said, 'okay, let's select the idea you're most interested in'. And that was J Robert Oppenheimer." Staging Oppenheimer's nuclear story 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z "We wanted to bring museums of the world to people, but we also wanted to bring people to museums of the world," said Alan Oppenheimer, president of Open Door Networks, which created the apps. In Transit Blog: Where's That Picasso? An App Can Help 2012-12-27T18:00:07Z I put it to Oppenheimer that, to some degree, the intimacy is therefore an illusion and the conversation, though sincere, must surely be shaped by the couple’s awareness of being filmed. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, one part of the project, where the first bombs were designed and built. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z The beautiful cerulean sky of Barbie Land simply can’t compare to what Murphy is serving up: Even in the black-and-white portions of “Oppenheimer,” the actor’s eyes still feel bright blue. ‘Barbenheimer’ Isn’t a Contest. But if It Were, Which Film Would Win? 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z This is a version of leadership that Oppenheimer was denied and that Barbie is able to enjoy: strength through accountability and repair. "Barbie" vs. "Oppenheimer": U.S. foreign policy has a lot to learn from this summer’s blockbusters 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Instead, Mr. Oppenheimer made “The Act of Killing,” and, anticipating repercussions, shot “The Look of Silence” before the first film was released. Indonesians Who Helped Make Films About Killings Face Safety Fears 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z The act," writes Monk, "seems charged with symbolism: Oppenheimer as the jealous queen leaving a poisoned apple for Snow White, the 'fairest of them all' whose beauty and goodness are admired by everybody. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z The painting was part of the collection of Sir Ernest and Lady Oppenheimer, from Johannesburg. Picture sale for African scholars 2012-10-17T08:11:59Z Scene from the documentary “The Act of Killing,” directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. Carpetbagger: Political Conflict and Art Dominate Documentary Field 2014-01-16T16:00:57Z The last of them, he says, is “109 East Palace,” about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb. Grandson’s pitch coaxes Redford out of retirement, briefly 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z “The first film was a flamboyant film, more of a fever dream, and this was something different,” Oppenheimer said in an interview. NYFF: Revisiting Indonesian acts of killing in 'Look of Silence' 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Written and directed by Nolan, the film borrows liberally from the book as it surveys Oppenheimer’s life, including his role as the director of the Manhattan Engineer District, better known as the Manhattan Project. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Oppenheimer said that he initially refused, citing the obvious dangers, but that Mr. Rukun pressed him. Indonesians Who Helped Make Films About Killings Face Safety Fears 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z “Oppenheimer” is a great achievement in formal and conceptual terms, and fully absorbing, but Nolan’s filmmaking is, crucially, in service to the history that it relates. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z For gangsters like Anwar, Oppenheimer was offering the chance to make a "beautiful family film" – a celebration of their rise, inspired by the Hollywood movies they loved. Joshua Oppenheimer: 'Even a mass killer you can love as a human being' 2013-06-20T14:57:23Z Mark Oppenheimer writes the Beliefs column for The Times every other Saturday. Books of The Times: How Yascha Mounk Grew Up a ‘Stranger in My Own Country’ 2014-01-14T21:22:09Z We see Adi impassively watching their giggling performance on television, and then going around to interview the killers, in some cases fitting them with glasses, in interview situations set up by Oppenheimer. The Look of Silence: second Act of Killing as horrifically gripping as first - Venice film festival review 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z “After I finished it, it was such a joy to spend a year with Robert Oppenheimer’s younger brother, Frank, and celebrate the joy of science.” ‘Oppenheimer’ Fans Are Rediscovering a 40-Year-Old Documentary 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer showed up a little later than expected carrying an enormous backpack. When the Oscars really matter: A nominee tries to show how the U.S. aided a genocide 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Oppenheimer, Mocco’s allergist, said research suggests that there is something about the heat and vibration of gas-powered lawn mowers that entices bees and wasps to attack. Can a garden be too bee-friendly? Oppenheimer’s documentaries have already had an effect in Indonesia, where they are available free online, although the movies are officially banned. When the Oscars really matter: A nominee tries to show how the U.S. aided a genocide 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Oppenheimer: Let me answer your question about approaching science without emotion: Yes, when I’m actually making measurements, I’m very focused and I have to be flexible and adaptable. Werner Herzog in North Korea: “We had a deeper understanding because of the quest for reunification” 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Witnesses to the Trinity test, the inaugural atomic bomb experiment in 1945 portrayed in “Oppenheimer,” described the billowing blast in various ways. How the Mushroom Cloud Boomed and Bloomed Across American Pop Culture 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s staggering film about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man known as “the father of the atomic bomb,” condenses a titanic shift in consciousness into three haunted hours. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z “There’s so many biases and judgments,” Oppenheimer says. 'There are so many biases': inside the American foster care system 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer banked on the perception of his close association with paramilitary leaders and cabinet ministers who played a role in the yet-unseen “The Act of Killing.” ‘The Look of Silence’ changes the perspective on Indonesian genocide 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z On receiving the honour, director Joshua Oppenheimer said: "Artistically, it's a far more meaningful award to me than an Oscar". Act of Killing is top Guardian film 2014-03-07T11:44:10Z Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joshua Oppenheimer at home in Copenhagen: ‘People behind the camera have the power to shape your public image for the rest of your life.’ Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Oppenheimer is a charming interlocutor and, with his easy manner and slightly elfin face, he soon becomes an emblem for scientific inquiry at its most accessible and exciting. Review: ‘Into the Inferno,’ Staring Down the Terrors of Nature 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z There’s a similar declension in the odysseys of the six converts profiled by Daniel Oppenheimer in his engaging study “Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century.” The Plight of the Political Convert 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z He opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb more vehemently than J. Robert Oppenheimer but escaped the ruination visited upon Oppenheimer by the vindictive chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Lewis L. Strauss. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Joshua Oppenheimer: The director of the acclaimed Indonesian genocide documentary "The Act of Killing" is considered an innovator in the documentary form. MacArthur Fellows: Meet six 'genius grant' winners from the arts 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z The painting was formerly owned by South Africa's wealthy Oppenheimer family and gifted to the university. Picture sale for African scholars 2012-10-17T08:11:59Z In brief italicized passages separating seven major sections, an unspecified, interestingly reticent narrator offers glimpses of Oppenheimer just before the test. The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Mark Oppenheimer, who writes the Beliefs column for The New York Times, is the author of the memoir “Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject to Debate.” Books of The Times: Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman’s ‘Dude and the Zen Master’ 2013-01-06T23:01:49Z Despite this one’s subject and Mr. Herzog’s fondness for the word catastrophe, “Into the Inferno” is surprisingly buoyant, partly because of Mr. Oppenheimer, who’s credited as a collaborator. Review: ‘Into the Inferno,’ Staring Down the Terrors of Nature 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z “When the company brought in local gangsters from the Pancasila Youth, the workers dropped their demands immediately,” says Oppenheimer. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Oppenheimer, 39, explained recently that “I was trying to understand how they want to be seen and how they see themselves.” The Carpetbagger: ‘Act of Killing’ and Oscar Voters’ Aversion to Violence 2014-02-21T13:30:52Z At the specially created laboratory at Los Alamos, Oppenheimer revealed extraordinary gifts of leadership, nursing a huge team of scientific prima donnas with passion, tact and skill. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z Although a vocal advocate for the nonfiction avant-garde, Wilson praised Oppenheimer for matching a creative vision to a subject of geopolitical significance. ‘The Look of Silence’ changes the perspective on Indonesian genocide 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Having initially helped and become friends with Oppenheimer during the making of the first film, Adi chose to confront the past head on and at considerable personal risk. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Case in point is another film named for a singular person – that came out on the same day as " Oppenheimer" in fact – and proves that argument flimsy at best. That "Oppenheimer" sex scene speaks to a larger problem with Christopher Nolan's storytelling 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z The Oppenheimers are a Jewish American success story. The Siblings in This Book Loathe Each Other, and It’s So Refreshing 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z So on a recent Tuesday morning, Oppenheimer appeared at the Dirksen Senate Office Building to meet with three Foreign Relations Committee staffers. When the Oscars really matter: A nominee tries to show how the U.S. aided a genocide 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z A scene from The Act of Killing, directed by Joshua Oppenheimer Anwar Congo is showing us how he used to kill people. Joshua Oppenheimer: 'Even a mass killer you can love as a human being' 2013-06-20T14:57:23Z “In that instance, the camera is heightening the occasion that we have set up together. I don’t believe that if you film anyone for long enough they forget the presence of the camera,” says Oppenheimer. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Among survivors’ and victims’ families, Ramli’s name has since become, as Oppenheimer puts it, “a synonym for the killings in general”. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z It also may be helpful to know that "Oppenheimer" is a three-hour commitment. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z Instead, her most indelible scenes are as Oppenheimer's sex object or in death, a way to humanize the physicist. That "Oppenheimer" sex scene speaks to a larger problem with Christopher Nolan's storytelling 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z But the title mainly alludes to Monk's insistence that he is trying to get to the heart of Oppenheimer, the man. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Two weeks ago, on a Sunday, I literally ran out of my six-hour Patient Care Technician shift to watch "Oppenheimer," Christopher Nolan's biopic starring Cilian Murphy as the Manhattan Project scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Defending that "Oppenheimer" sex scene as a Hindu woman who delved into my religion's sacred truths 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Horror movies have nothing on the terrifying reality of Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentaries. When the Oscars really matter: A nominee tries to show how the U.S. aided a genocide 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z “The Invisible Dragon” had been published in a small initial run with little fanfare, Oppenheimer writes. Review | How Dave Hickey became one of the most influential art critics in America 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer’s propulsive narrative traces the aftermath as residents bury and mourn, organize rallies, and field the onslaught of national media and “trauma tourists.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The Look of Silence, director Joshua Oppenheimer’s harrowing follow-up to his Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing, won top honors at the International Documentary Association’s 2015 awards on Saturday night. The Look of Silence tops winners at documentary association awards 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Lisa Jardine wrote the words every publisher wants to read in the Financial Times about Ray Monk's Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer. Critical eye: reviews roundup 2012-11-23T22:55:05Z “Adi told me, ‘This is the day that it becomes too late for my dad,’ ” Oppenheimer said. ‘The Look of Silence’ changes the perspective on Indonesian genocide 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who served as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, was written into the first episode -- and the character will return as the season progresses. 'Manhattan' creators stress WGN America drama isn't a series of facts 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z The two ruled American physics in the 1930s; Lawrence its experimental, Oppenheimer its theoretical wing. ‘Big Science,’ by Michael Hiltzik 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z The script was even written in first person to convey that every character is just a piece in Oppenheimer's narrative. That "Oppenheimer" sex scene speaks to a larger problem with Christopher Nolan's storytelling 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Initially hailed, Oppenheimer later fell from grace after his outspokenness, including an initial opposition to development of the hydrogen bomb, drew political enemies. Review | A novel attempt to understand the father of the atomic bomb 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z In this newspaper, under the headline “Don’t give an Oscar to this snuff movie”, Fraser expressed his distaste for Oppenheimer’s approach. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer isn't an easy biographical subject: the complexity, the contradictions, and the cultural breadth provoke interest in the man, while for the biographer they constitute massive practical problems. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-11-16T10:06:01Z "Oppenheimer" is the summer blockbuster of the year. That "Oppenheimer" sex scene speaks to a larger problem with Christopher Nolan's storytelling 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z As the documentary has racked up prizes on the festival circuit, Mr. Oppenheimer has dedicated them to his co-director, who must still remain anonymous for fear of reprisal. The Carpetbagger: ‘Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer’ and ‘The Square,’ Shortlisted 2014-01-01T22:34:22Z Painted by Max Oppenheimer in 1909, the portrait is owned by the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Art Review: Fin-de-Si?cle Hothouse, Plush and Neurotic 2011-02-24T23:17:57Z In the late 1930s he began to associate with communists, unaware that they were under surveillance, and Oppenheimer himself popped up on the FBI's radar. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z Related: Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields The film’s central figure is Adi Rukun, a man whose brother was captured and killed with unimaginable cruelty for being a suspected subversive. The 50 best films of 2015 in the US – No 6: The Look of Silence 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z This question animates Mark Oppenheimer’s “Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood,” a poignant, deeply researched account of the Pittsburgh Jewish neighborhood in the aftermath of tragedy. What Happened After the Most Deadly Antisemitic Attack in American History? 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Would anyone seriously interested in Oppenheimer seek out a biography for this?: Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z If Edward VII was many-sided, Robert Oppenheimer was positively polymorphous. Christmas gifts 2012: the best biographies 2012-11-30T22:55:07Z In the review that I eventually filed, I wrote that Oppenheimer’s actions were “just violence, impulse, a firing of circuits, as mindless as a star collapsing in on itself.” Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Its genius is not to explain but to embody the science and politics that shaped Oppenheimer’s life. The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z If all the "evil of the times" was wrapped up in this judicial travesty, so were Oppenheimer's deep flaws of character. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z The release of the documentary will be accompanied with a social impact campaign Oppenheimer characterizes as “robust”. 'There are so many biases': inside the American foster care system 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z But that "Oppenheimer" Gita sex scene told me differently. Defending that "Oppenheimer" sex scene as a Hindu woman who delved into my religion's sacred truths 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer sets the scene with details even those familiar with the story might forget. What Happened After the Most Deadly Antisemitic Attack in American History? 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z “This our fungal expert?” asks J. Robert Oppenheimer of the Manhattan Project, making a brief but crucial cameo appearance. Very, Very Bad Things, Very, Very Tiny Packages 2011-03-13T22:52:19Z The story tracks Oppenheimer — played with feverish intensity by Cillian Murphy — across decades, starting in the 1920s with him as a young adult and continuing until his hair grays. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z In Oppenheimer’s case, what happened is a matter of historical record. Review | A novel attempt to understand the father of the atomic bomb 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z One of the most effective examples of this approach illuminates how Oppenheimer and other Jewish project scientists, some of whom were refugees from Nazi Germany, saw their work in stark, existential terms. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Einstein was dressed casually, and the sculptor decided to depict the scientist as he appeared, a move that Robert Oppenheimer resented in the late 1950s. Memorials to Gandhi, Einstein share a surprising common bond 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joshua Oppenheimer received an Oscar nomination for The Act of Killing, his troubling documentary that profiled some perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide, by having them re-enact their appalling crimes. And the Oscar may go to: 30 key movies that could win big next award season 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z It also isn’t a story that builds gradually; rather, Nolan abruptly tosses you into the whirl of Oppenheimer’s life with vivid scenes of him during different periods in his life. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Time and again he hits that analogy hard, emphasizing the importance of logistics in Oppenheimer’s personal and intellectual life. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z “Every time ‘Barbie’ released a trailer, ‘Oppenheimer’ would start trending,” Mitchell said. Mark Your Calendars: ‘Barbenheimer’ Is Coming 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z The Italian movie "The Great Beauty" won the award for Film Not in the English Language, while the documentary prize went to "The Act of Killing" by Joshua Oppenheimer. "12 Years a Slave" wins top British film awards as "Gravity" soars 2014-02-16T22:51:18Z At the Cavendish, one of the world's leading physics laboratories, Oppenheimer had been assigned a tutor to bring him up to speed with experimental techniques. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Related: The Act of Killing has helped Indonesia reassess its past and present | Joshua Oppenheimer Oppenheimer describes himself as “culturally Jewish – secular rather than religious”. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z He continued over the next two decades as he accumulated tens of thousands of pages of research, from FBI files to private correspondence to interviews with those who knew Oppenheimer. Martin J. Sherwin, Pulitzer-winning scholar, dead at 84, 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z Ramli’s ghost haunts The Look of Silence, a film that Oppenheimer sees as “completing” his 2012 documentary, The Act of Killing. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, Mr. Monk believes Oppenheimer was intimidated by the broad sophistication he found at Harvard and later Cambridge. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z Hall uses them to perform seven thought experiments, as if Oppenheimer, like a subatomic particle, could be revealed only indirectly, through his collisions with others. The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Though Oppenheimer left behind nearly 300 boxes of papers, Mr. Monk says they contain “remarkably little that gives away anything of an intimate nature.” Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z Oppenheimer: We have unfinished business with volcanoes there. Werner Herzog in North Korea: “We had a deeper understanding because of the quest for reunification” 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Blackett, who went on to win the Nobel prize for physics, clearly didn't eat the apple, nor did Oppenheimer face criminal charges. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z These mammoth machines can drag an “Oppenheimer” copy — 53 reels that together weigh 600 pounds and hold footage that would run 11 miles — across their 15,000-watt lamps. For ‘Oppenheimer,’ These Fans Go to Great Lengths for Just 30 Screens 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Then it’s off to Iceland, where Mr. Oppenheimer surveys the voluptuous, otherworldly landscape and Mr. Herzog reads aloud from the Codex Regius, a medieval manuscript. Review: ‘Into the Inferno,’ Staring Down the Terrors of Nature 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer has a claim to have made a sort of history with that film. The Look of Silence: second Act of Killing as horrifically gripping as first - Venice film festival review 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z "I ... encountered the boastful and shocking way that the killers were talking about what they did," said Oppenheimer in a telephone interview from Denmark. Film reopens old, long-buried wounds in Indonesia 2013-02-27T05:35:36Z As Oppenheimer comes into focus so does the world. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Other historical figures march through the text as well: Wittgenstein, Tesla and Oppenheimer signal the role of accident, failure and fiction in creating history. Review: ‘The Lost Time Accidents’ asks the big questions about where we are 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z It’s also odd that Mr. Monk adopts a vaguely atomic metaphor to describe Oppenheimer’s life. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z The simultaneous release of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” captured the pop-cultural imagination because before we had seen either film, it was hard to imagine two features that occupied such distinctly different lanes. ‘Barbenheimer’ Isn’t a Contest. But if It Were, Which Film Would Win? 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z He brings off the set pieces, such as the Trinity test, but he also explores Oppenheimer the physicist with a thoroughness some readers may find arduous. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z “He said, ‘I need to confront the men who killed my brother,’ ” Oppenheimer recalled. ‘The Look of Silence’ changes the perspective on Indonesian genocide 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The Swan will also host Dekker's festive comedy The Shoemaker's holiday, and the world premiere of Tom Morton-Smith's new play Oppenheimer about "the father of the atom bomb", J Robert Oppenheimer. RSC double bill to commemorate WWI 2014-02-04T14:02:23Z Mr. Monk gives very detailed accounts of F.B.I. surveillance of Oppenheimer and those around him. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z “I love acting with my body, and Oppenheimer had a very distinct physicality and silhouette, which I wanted to get right,” Murphy said. The Eyes of Cillian Murphy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Oppenheimer visits some of the perpetrators of those killings, and finds them not only unrepentant but positively giddy about what they had done. Critic’s Notebook: Four Days of Films at Telluride 2012-09-03T22:16:36Z A real book being, of course, nonfiction, in this case the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.” Review | A novel attempt to understand the father of the atomic bomb 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z The bomb project’s lead scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, named it Trinity after a John Donne poem about humanity, faith and submission to God. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z And this is intentional framing on Oppenheimer's part: anchor Dana Bash also appears in "On the Trail" but leaves less of a footprint in the final edit than Lah, Wright, and Diaz. "On the Trail" spotlights CNN's women reporters and prompts examination of campaign coverage bias 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z When I responded that it was a new novel based on the life and legacy of Robert Oppenheimer he said, “You know, there’s a real book about him.” Review | A novel attempt to understand the father of the atomic bomb 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z His book appeared in England under the main title “In the Centre,” as if Oppenheimer were a nucleus and not a person. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z The perpetrators still held power in the country, and Mr. Rukun urged Mr. Oppenheimer to try to film them. Adi Rukun, Neither Silent Nor Intimidated 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z We made a more pleasant discovery when a friend directed us to Oppenheimer Beach, a deserted white sand crescent that doesn’t appear on most tourist maps and is a perfect hideaway. In the U.S. Virgin Islands, returning to a changed but resilient St. John 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer: When we were talking at the top of Erebus, I say it’s not worth dying to get a scientific measurement. Werner Herzog in North Korea: “We had a deeper understanding because of the quest for reunification” 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Oppenheimer watches quietly from the sidelines, giving the gangsters all the rope they need. Joshua Oppenheimer: 'Even a mass killer you can love as a human being' 2013-06-20T14:57:23Z Exchanges like this elevate Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" from a mere biopic to a full-sensory artistic experience, tugging at mind and soul. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z It was not clear how actors would handle dressing up as Barbie or J. Robert Oppenheimer at events that would not be publicized or whether actors would influence the costume choices of their family members. Halloween Is Tricky for Actors on Strike 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z The lodge, along with the house where Oppenheimer lived with his wife and kids, are among the buildings managed by the Manhattan Project Historical Park, which arranges occasional tours. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z At times, ordinary men, women and children pressured by gangsters into playing extras clearly look traumatized, raising an ethical question about Oppenheimer’s efforts to get at unspeakable truths. ‘The Act of Killing’: a haunting take on Indonesia genocide 2013-08-01T22:56:25Z Instead, director Joshua Oppenheimer, Drafthouse Films and other partners took the unusual step of making the picture free online to everyone nationwide beginning Monday, the anniversary of the event that kickstarted the killings. Film Gives Indonesia View of Bloody, Obscured Past 2013-10-04T13:50:53Z Those familiar with the history of the United States’ nuclear program will recognize many names, locations and story twists: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Gen. Leslie Groves, Enrico Fermi, Leona Woods, Niels Bohr, Ernest Lawrence and others. A Forgotten Town at the Center of the Manhattan Project 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z As a movie fan, Mr. Oppenheimer said, Mr. Congo “understands the significance” of the Oscars. The Carpetbagger: ‘Act of Killing’ Director Says He Is Not Safe in Indonesia 2014-02-18T18:03:23Z Oppenheimer: It’s irresponsible, particularly as a volcanologist, if I’m encouraging people to do crazy stuff. Werner Herzog in North Korea: “We had a deeper understanding because of the quest for reunification” 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z That book, billed as “the first full-scale biography” of Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist, gave Mr. Monk good reason to worry. Books of The Times: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center,’ by Ray Monk 2013-05-27T21:46:27Z Then came the two events that would shape Oppenheimer's life. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z “There is no one like him. He belongs in the canon of American nonfiction prose,” his biographer Daniel Oppenheimer wrote in “Far From Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art,” published last June. Art critic Dave Hickey, known for book ‘Air Guitar’, dies 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z And as I was watching the second sex scene with Oppenheimer and Jean, I gasped at how disjointed it felt from the larger story Nolan was attempting to illustrate. That "Oppenheimer" sex scene speaks to a larger problem with Christopher Nolan's storytelling 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Regardless, the audience sees this as the couple going at it while Oppenheimer is staring at the board of men questioning him. That "Oppenheimer" sex scene speaks to a larger problem with Christopher Nolan's storytelling 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z The Act Of Killing + Q&A 115 mins Christine Cynn, Joshua Oppenheimer It's as though the apparent gloom of his world view prompts us to giggle at him. Werner Herzog: 50 years of potent, inspiring, disturbing films 2013-06-01T08:01:00Z Joshua Oppenheimer will be on hand Friday for a Q&A after the 7:15 p.m. screening and to introduce the 10 p.m. screening. ‘The Look of Silence’ changes the perspective on Indonesian genocide 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Like "Oppenheimer," the hearing had no testimony from communities directly impacted by U.S. militarism. "Barbie" vs. "Oppenheimer": U.S. foreign policy has a lot to learn from this summer’s blockbusters 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z The crew was filming in Oppenheimer’s original cabin, now painstakingly restored. Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z |
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