Doctor Atomic is an opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars. It premiered at the San Francisco Opera on...
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John Adams (composer) (section 1988 to Doctor Atomic)
Adams wrote the opera Doctor Atomic (2005), based on J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the building of the first atomic bomb. Later operas...
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On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The bombings killed...
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J. Robert Oppenheimer (redirect from Father of the atomic bomb)
Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons...
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Rogue Trooper, and reused the blue skin motif for Doctor Manhattan as it visualised electrical or atomic energy while still resembling human skin tonally...
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to the Gulf War of 1990–91. Sellars was the librettist for the opera Doctor Atomic composed by John Adams. In August 2006, he directed a staged performance...
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the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II. The son of a U.S. Army chaplain, Groves lived...
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Crystal Maze was based on a pentakis dodecahedron. In Doctor Atomic, the shape of the first atomic bomb detonated in New Mexico was a pentakis dodecahedron...
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Atomic Blonde is a 2017 American action thriller film directed by David Leitch (receiving his first credit as feature film director) from a screenplay...
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"Doctor Atomic" (PDF). Notes. 66 (3): 628–629. doi:10.1353/not.0.0308. Retrieved 23 December 2010. Andrew Clements (27 February 2009). "Doctor Atomic (Coliseum...
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