With 13 Academy Award nominations and a pile of other awards under its belt, Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" is a heavy favorite to dominate the Oscars Sunday night. But who was the eponymous-title ...

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Newly declassified documents reveal that Gen. Leslie Groves—director of the Manhattan Project, the top-secret operation that built the atomic bomb during World War II—misled Congress and the public ...