Jimmy Carter was probably the most intelligent, hard-working and decent man to have occupied the Oval Office in the 20th century.

Christopher Nolan's movie has no interest in reducing the atomic bombings of Japan to a trivializing, exploitative spectacle, despite what some would want.

Christopher Nolan's movie has no interest in reducing the atomic bombings of Japan to a trivializing, exploitative spectacle, despite what some would want.

The inventor of the atomic bomb, the subject of Christopher Nolan’s new film, was the chief celebrity victim of the national trauma known as McCarthyism.

The "father of the atomic bomb" has long been misunderstood. Will the new film finally get J. Robert Oppenheimer right?

Christopher Nolan’s film delves deeply into what this country did to its most famous scientist.

In the Kremlin, faith and force go hand in hand.

J. Robert Oppenheimer was famous for his Martinis, which featured gin and vermouth in a chilled glass with the rim dipped in honey and lime juice.

In this three-hour biopic about the father of the atomic bomb, Cillian Murphy brings the tragic figure at its center to fascinatingly paradoxical life.

One of the last surviving eyewitnesses from the effort to build the first atomic bomb gives his impressions of the Manhattan Project’s driving force: J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Was the Manhattan Project leader a communist? Did he regret the bomb? Here’s what you need to know.

The biopic director argues that the physicist who oversaw creation of the atomic bomb was both the most important person who ever lived and hopelessly naïve.

Christopher Nolan’s upcoming drama ‘Oppenheimer’ has sparked much interest in the life of its controversial protagonist. But few know that J Robert Oppenheimer’s career intersected with India in some...

The physicist was punished for opposing development of the hydrogen bomb, and for warning about the dangers of nuclear proliferation.

JAFFA, Israel – Benjamin Netanyahu had one job. He told us, incessantly, that his job was to keep Israel a place where mass killings of Jews would never happen. Could never happen. He had one job. It...

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Even this most rigorous of biopics must at times employ shortcuts and shorthand.

You see, I was a fully indoctrinated company kid; I believed wholeheartedly that the United States and Saudi Arabia had a “special relationship” that ran deeper than oil. For a long time after we...

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Help us restore an American treasure! Would you like to experience the life of J. Robert… Christine Hipp needs your support for Restore the Oppenheimer House

The “Oppenheimer” star is carrying a major movie for the first time, a responsibility he takes very seriously. Christopher Nolan wrote it with him in mind.

Russian agent Ted Hall gets a sympathetic treatment in “The Compassionate Spy.”

Kai Bird, one of the co-authors of "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer"—which 25 years to complete—explains why he once described biography as: “The hardest form of...

J. Robert Oppenheimer led the Manhattan Project—the research and development program that produced the bomb—but later voiced strong opposition to the development of the hydrogen bomb and argued for...

Ahead of the upcoming theatrical release of Oppenheimer, Universal Pictures has released the Shooting for IMAX featurette, giving audiences a glimpse of how the epic thriller was made alongside

Many reviews for Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” noted that the film felt like the director’s own version of Oliver Stone’s sprawling historical epic “JFK,” and now Stone himself has weighed in on...

The Post’s Craig Whitlock explains why U.S. officials perpetuated a failing mission.

Though I knew Einstein for two or three decades, it was only in the last decade of his life that we were close colleagues and something of friends. But I

The administration needs to stop misleading Congress and the American public.

J. Robert Oppenheimer's grandson shares lessons from his grandfather he believes are...

Kai Bird has just returned from the Jaipur literature festival, where he signed countless copies of his two-decade-old book for hundreds of young Indians who all watched the film "Oppenheimer."

Who won the 2024 Academy Award for Best Director? Watch Christopher Nolan accept the Oscar for directing Oppenheimer.

"Vovka," His Parents, His Wife. His Daughters and his Poodle Toska

World Book Day 2024: Kai Bird to date continues to wow the world with his exceptional skills as a biographer and writer, his works remain as timeless as ever and only grow more and more important as...

In the first of many close-ups of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) in Christopher Nolan’s new film about the physicist, he’s a young student observing raindrops falling in a well.

Even with its subject in prison, the documentary plays like a crowd-pleaser.

Christopher Nolan’s "Oppenheimer" authentically conveys the contradictions of the man, some I discovered in a small way, a physicist writes.

She gave up the stage for the writing life, publishing biographies of some famous friends and two powerful memoirs. She died of the coronavirus.

Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas in Conversation with Kai Bird This event was recorded live on October 11, 2023. Oppenheimer filmmakers Christopher Nolan an...

November 10, 2021: Twenty Israeli settlers, armed with guns and clubs, their faces masked, descend upon the hamlet of Halat al-Dab’ in the South Hebron

In a story published Oct. 9, 2021, about the death of historian Martin Sherwin, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of a center he helped found at Tufts University. It's the Nuclear...

The director and producer discussed with author Kai Bird how they transformed his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography into a blockbuster film.

A historian of the nuclear age, he and his co-author, Kai Bird, won a 2006 Pulitzer for their book about the scientist behind the atom bomb.

The “Barbenheimer” double feature captures the dawn of our imperiled era.

America’s post-Cold War presidents could have taken a road that didn’t end at Donald Trump.

Mitchell Kaplan: Books & Books in Coral Gables, our flagship store, is right across the street from the Coral Gables Cinema. Our indie bookstore so close to this indie cinema is my idea of heav…

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Kai Bird’s “The Outlier” takes a close look at the Carter administration and concludes that the 39th president deserves a better reputation.

The physicist and architect of the American atomic bomb was stripped of his security clearance in 1954 after what is now called a flawed investigation.

In memoriam.

Blake Bailey’s comprehensive life of Roth features a parade of book after book, award after award, and lover after lover.

'Oppenheimer' director Christopher Nolan is stunned by the grosses, as well as the Oscar buzz, that the film is generating.

Some forgotten history goes a long way toward explaining our longest war.

The historic Camp David Accords were supposed to be just the start. But American Jewish leaders—and Menachem Begin—helped see to it that they were the end.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

It doesn't look that way, but maybe that will make us realize we're all in this together

The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum is offering a 94 cent admission to honor Carter's 94th birthday on Oct. 1.

Kim Masters and Matt Belloni examine the latest updates in the Disney proxy vote saga. Also, has peak TV officially ended? The banter partners break down FX chairman John Landgraf’s recent remarks on...

What have we learned since the Manhattan Project, and how does the atomic bomb continue to challenge global warfare? Join Andrea Mitchell in conversation with documentary film director Chris Cassell...

Christopher Nolan's movie has no interest in reducing the atomic bombings of Japan to a trivializing, exploitative spectacle, despite what some would want.

The award recognizes him for making the Graduate Center’s Leon Levy Center for Biography “the most important institute for biography in America.”

The Anti-Defamation League is set to honor Jared Kushner, former President Donald Trump's son-in-law, at its annual conference this week.

Activists say more than 800 political prisoners remain on a monthlong hunger strike.