J. Robert Oppenheimer

VIDEO: Proof that L. Ron Hubbard Was the Most Awesome Human Being Ever

Just a few weeks after the Scientologists at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida experienced it for themselves, here it is: video from this year's L. Ron Hubbard birthday event. On March 13, LRH would have turned 101 years old (if he hadn't so wisely dropped his meat body in 1986 to research hig ... More >>

The American Films of Mad Genius Fritz Lang Expand Genres

Cloak and Dagger

Time Capsules

When the nation marched to the beat of Henry Luce's newsreels

Sweet, Sweet Motherhood and Lovesong of the Electric Bear Bring Some Science to the Stage

But the empirical method thwarts theatermakers again

Destroyer

Free Will Astrology: April 22 through 28

Trinity 5:29's Manhattan Project Story Not Exactly Setting World On Fire

LOUDER THAN BOMBS

Randy Sharp's Trinity 5:29

John Adams's Doctor Atomic at the Met Doesn't Radiate

The opposite of operatic

NUCLEAR FAMILY

This opera's the bomb

Wonders Are Many: Atomic Doc

Oppenheimer chronicle, chronicled

Them's Eats

Jim Shaw roasts Judy Chicago's Dinner Party

1907, 1957, and...Now?

Welcome to Off-Off-Broadway's newest theatrical discovery—the past

Unclear Physicist

While Dubya plays nuclear chicken with Iran, Oppenheimer is the right play to revive

Tweaking Their Legacies: Composers Reinvent Themselves

It's the Bomb

Atomic blast from the past: An interview with Lydia Millet

Manhattan Confidential

Two inside looks at the testosterone-fueled world of mid-20th-century physics

Tracks of Your Tears

Don't cry when an iPod breaks a big house mix into a jillion pieces

Deep Time, Short Sight

Bracing for Yucca Mountain's Nuclear Forever

Waiting for Lefties

Hostile Witness

Visual Quest