Time to review the Oppenheimer movie and it really holds up well. Not only was it amazingly well put together, but it actually has an interesting twist that lends a new interpretation of this important figure and his legacy. But just to refresh, let’s go over Oppie’s bio before we get into how director Christopher Nolan made a truly fascinating film that contributes something to historical interpretation.

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Bibliography
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (New York: Vintage Books, 2006). https://amzn.to/3MYgBTv

Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko, The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University, 2008). https://amzn.to/35cXFdF

Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, with new foreword (1986; New York: Simon and Schuster, 2012). https://amzn.to/3qcKUgm

Eric Schlosser, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (New York: Penguin Books, 2013). https://amzn.to/3MFP8EX

Ferenc Morton Szasz, The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984). https://amzn.to/3MCKHe7

Tom Zoellner, Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World (New York: Viking, 2009). https://amzn.to/43rvZgO

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Wiki: Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical drama film[5][6][7] written for the screen and directed by Christopher Nolan.[8] It stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project—the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film chronicles the career of Oppenheimer, with the story predominantly focusing on his studies, his direction of the Manhattan Project during World War II, and his eventual fall from grace due to his 1954 security hearing. The film also stars Emily Blunt as Oppenheimer's wife "Kitty", Matt Damon as head of the Manhattan Project Leslie Groves, Robert Downey Jr. as United States Atomic Energy Commission member Lewis Strauss, and Florence Pugh as Oppenheimer's communist lover Jean Tatlock. The ensemble supporting cast includes Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.

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36:52 spoilers
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