Oppenheimer was first a brilliant scientist, then a war hero, then a political traitor, then a nobody, then a martyr, now a ...

Many narrators continue to portray Oppenheimer as the father of the atomic bomb. But crediting him was part of a strategy to make nuclear weapons look like an unambiguous force of good—not of evil.

Cold War in the United States. He served on the faculty of the University of Baltimore, where he taught about the Cold War’s impact on ordinary Americans’ lives, and other social, political, and ...

Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in history of science from Harvard University and a M.A. and B.A. in philosophy from the University of Oslo.

The US military's confidence in the president having sole authority to launch a nuclear weapon went down when Trump ...

The US government is rushing nuclear reactor deployment on federal sites to fuel its global AI race. But it may come at ...

After two-and-a-half days of meetings in a mostly sunny midsummer Chicago, concerned Nobel Prize laureates and many of the ...

The daughter of an Oak Ridge engineer seeks to understand her father's role in the Manhattan Project—and fills unknowns with ...

Tremendous progress has been made in reducing global nuclear stockpiles and nuclear risks, but we are now heading in the ...

In 1946, the US organized a football game featuring a pro fullback and a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback in the ruins of ...

Q&A with Abeba Birhane on how she was censored during the AI for Good summit and how the industry can do better.

With decades of experience in national security, Jill Hruby joins the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board to help confront ...