Oppenheimer, the Hero? Selling America by the Trinitrotoluene Ton

As a physicist and baby boomer whose parents both served in World War II, I had to see Christopher Nolan’s cinematic creation about one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic figures, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the self-styled Destroyer of Worlds known as Oppie to most. Having seen the 1980 BBC miniseries on the Manhattan Project with Sam Waterston, More

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