Gerald Finley, as J. Robert Oppenheimer, is shown during a scene from the dress rehearsal of the San Francisco Opera's production of "Doctor Atomic" in San Francisco, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2005.

Dr. Edward Teller, still on the inside of U.S. nuclear activities, came to the conference room of "U. S. News & World Report" for this interview on an issue of growing importance.

John Adams bends the “centuries-old art form” of opera to give our recent national past “a new dimensionality and resonance,” just as he did in 1987’s Nixon in China, sai ...

But Dr. Atomic ’s treatment of Robert Oppenheimer is for the most part essentially true to history and character. Early in the opera, Oppenheimer is informed by Edward Teller (who later became a ...

Nuclear scientist Edward Teller died yesterday. Ray Suarez discusses his work on the atomic and hydrogen bombs with author Richard Rhodes. Before his death yesterday at the age of 95, Edward ...