Lewis Strauss, the chairman of the AEC, became suspicious of Oppenheimer for opposing the development of a hydrogen bomb. Oppenheimer pressed for international control of nuclear weapons ...

And they claimed that Oppenheimer's opposition had retarded the progress of the project. Rather than hand in his resignation, which is what AEC chairman Lewis Strauss had hoped Oppenheimer would ...

Blink and you’ll miss it. In a scene in the new Oppenheimer film set right after the successful 1949 atomic bomb test by the USSR, there is a brief exchange between the film’s two main antagonists.

Robert Oppenheimer, who led the assembly and testing ... Instead, there is a glimpse of it in his eyes as he passes Senator Lewis Strauss in one of the film's most critical scenes, beside the ...

Robert Downey Jr. doesn't often play the bad guy, but he unequivocally proved he can do so with his career-best performance as Lewis Strauss in 2023's Oppenheimer. Strauss was initially a ...