With archival footage and testimonials, the 76-minute film delves into the brilliant mind of Albert Einstein in the face of the dangers of Nazism and the atomic bomb in the 20th century.

For someone who wasn't involved in the race to develop the first atomic bomb, Albert Einstein plays a surprisingly significant role in the Christopher Nolan film "Oppenheimer." The movie focuses on J.

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...

Einstein’s role in the bomb’s development is often overstated ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt to speed up development of nuclear weapons in the United States. His fear was that the Nazis ...

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, with the advice of Albert Einstein and other scientists from the Manhattan Project who developed the atomic bomb, ...

In 1939, Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard co-wrote a letter to U.S. President ... becoming the nation’s first national lab—Argonne National Laboratory. In order to build an atomic bomb, the Manhattan ...

It’s a terrific movie, historically accurate and thought-provoking. The film’s recurring theme is Oppenheimer’s nightmarish ...

and regretted his role in creating the atomic bomb–calling it “the one great mistake in my life.” But did you know that Albert Einstein also had a philosophical side? Born in 1879 ...

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ puts clock at 89 seconds from nuclear apocalypse, closer to ‘midnight’ than even during the ...