How Christopher Nolan recreated the Trinity Test atomic bomb explosion in 'Oppenheimer' without any CGI

Tech Insider
trinity nuclear bomb test distant yellow mushroom cloud erupting into orange sky
A colorized photo of the mushroom cloud produced by the Trinity nuclear test as it rises over the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945.

National Security Research Center

Why Einstein wasn't part of the Manhattan Project even though he convinced President Roosevelt to build an atomic bomb

Tech Insider
J. Robert Oppenheimer working with Albert Einstein.
J. Robert Oppenheimer working with Albert Einstein.

Corbis/Getty Images

The Black scientists behind the Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb program that inspired the movie 'Oppenheimer'

Tech Insider
William Jacob Knox, Jr., Samuel Proctor Massie, and Carolyn Parker were among the handful of Black scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project.
William Jacob Knox, Jr., Samuel Proctor Massie, and Carolyn Parker were among the handful of Black scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project.

US Department of Energy; US Naval Academy; Public Domain

Sam Altman compared the scale of OpenAI with the Manhattan Project and quoted Oppenheimer in 2019, report says

Tech Insider
Sam Altman and Robert Oppenheimer points to a picture of a mushroom cloud.
Sam Altman and Robert Oppenheimer, pointing to a picture of a mushroom cloud.

JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images; Bettmann/Getty Images

The US's B-29 bomber was more expensive than the nuclear bomb it dropped on Japan at the end of World War II

Tech Insider
b 29 bombing
A B-29 drops bombs on Formosa on October 18, 1944.

US Army Air Forces Birdsall, Stephen via Wikimedia Commons

Subscribe to Manhattan Project