The Latest Breaking News from Manhattan Project

Matt Damon told his wife he’d take a break from acting unless ‘Chris Nolan called’

Damon plays Manhattan Project director Lt Leslie Groves Jr in the Christopher Nolan epic

The Independent UK · Jul 19, 2023

Matt Damon told his wife he’d take a break from acting unless ‘Chris Nolan called’

Damon plays Manhattan Project director Lt Leslie Groves Jr in the Christopher Nolan epic

The Independent UK · Jul 17, 2023

'Oppenheimer' trailer reveals Cillian Murphy as Manhattan Project's genius bomb maker

Universal Pictures has released a new trailer for director Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer."

Space · May 10, 2023

Oppenheimer: the film telling the true story of the man who invented the atom bomb

In his new film, Christopher Nolan will explore the life of the scientist dubbed “the father of the atomic bomb”

Evening Standard · Dec 13, 2022

From My Commonplace Book, 2

Robert Oppenheimer on the death of FDR.

Reason · Nov 7, 2022

US elementary school tested for nuclear bomb waste from Manhattan Project

Report finds levels of the radioactive isotype lead-210 as much as 22 times the expected levels at Missouri school serving mostly Black students

The Guardian - US · Nov 2, 2022

Greater urgency needed for our fading glaciers

I'm writing this on a plane to Greenland -- well, actually, on a plane to Denmark, because there's no way to get to Greenland by a civilian airline without going through Copenhagen first -- and it has occurred to me (not for the first time) to wonder where everybody else…

Bangkok Post · Oct 4, 2022

Manhattan Project, a decade of inspiration led to Pa. native's first novel

PITTSBURGH — The idea for Sarah James' debut novel had been around in one form or another since she was 19. All it took was more than a decade to gestate into something tangible.

Tribune News Service · Aug 10, 2022

‘Hoop Dreams’ filmmaker Steve James to premiere new project at the Venice Film Festival on atomic spy Theodore Hall

CHICAGO — The new Steve James documentary “A Compassionate Spy,” about the Manhattan Project physicist, Soviet spy and University of Chicago alum Theodore Hall, has been selected for the documentary slate of the 79th Venice Film Festival.

Chicago Tribune · Jul 29, 2022

Peaky Blinder's star Cillian Murphy undergoes huge weight loss for his next movie as Dr J. Robert Oppenheimer

The Cork star is working again with Christopher Nolan on the biopic

Irish Mirror · May 13, 2022