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BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) -Historical epic "Oppenheimer," about the race to build the first atomic bomb, landed a leading 13 Oscar nominations on Tuesday and will compete for the prestigious best picture trophy. "Oppenheimer" outpaced gothic comedy "Poor Things," which received 11 nominations for the film industry's highest honors. Also in the best picture race were feminist doll adventure "Barbie," Leonard Bernstein biopic "Maestro,&...

Visitors lined up Saturday to tour the southern New Mexico site where the world's first atomic bomb was detonated in what officials believe could be a record turnout amid ongoing fanfare surrounding the blockbuster film, " Oppenheimer."

If you go to New Mexico on October 21, you might get a chance to stand where Robert Oppenheimer’s bomb changed history.

The state has gotten more attention with the release of “Oppenheimer,” a movie about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the top-secret Manhattan Project.

On Aug. 9, 1945, a U.S. bomber dropped an atomic weapon on Nagasaki, killing 70,000 people and ultimately leading to the end of World War II.

The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were impossible to keep secret.

The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were impossible to keep secret.

Responses to an essay by Jane Coaston and a news article. Also: No Labels; fallout from the Trinity test; climate deniers.

Universal PicturesDivided to its very core, Oppenheimer is an intensely subjective character study of a genius defined by contradictions as well as a sprawling origin story about the birth of the modern world. For its opening two-thirds, the film builds at a breakneck pace to the instant in which both man and civilization are irrevocably changed by an act of fusion: the July 16, 1945, “Trinity” test of the first atomic bomb in the Los Alamos desert. That scene is the initial climax...

J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the men who oversaw the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert.