If Trump is interested in resolving this crisis, diplomacy remains the best method for preventing a nuclear breakout in Iran and beyond.

Oppenheimer was first a brilliant scientist, then a war hero, then a political traitor, then a nobody, then a martyr, now a ...

Many narrators continue to portray Oppenheimer as the father of the atomic bomb. But crediting him was part of a strategy to make nuclear weapons look like an unambiguous force of good—not of evil.

Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in history of science from Harvard University and a M.A. and B.A. in philosophy from the University of Oslo.