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 ...

During the 96th Academy Awards ceremony, Robert Downey Jr. won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Admiral Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer." Although the ...

Convincing Robert Downey Jr. to play Lewis Strauss – a key antagonist in the J. Robert Oppenheimer saga—wasn’t much of a challenge. “I don’t know why I can relate to Lewis Strauss so ...

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.

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 ...

The July 21 theatrical release of the film “Oppenheimer,” focused on the life of a prominent American nuclear physicist, should help to remind us of how badly the development of modern weapons has ...

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 ...