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The Day After Trinity, a 1980 documentary about Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb, was nominated for an Academy Award and received a Peabody Award. [336] [337] Oppenheimer's life is explored in Tom Morton-Smith's 2015 play Oppenheimer, [338] and the 1989 film Fat Man and Little Boy, where he was portrayed by Dwight Schultz. [339]
At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote section of the Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, the first full scale test was made of the implosion type atomic fission bomb. For the first time in history there was a nuclear explosion. And what an explosion! ... The test was successful beyond the most optimistic expectations of anyone. [150]
Oppenheimer developed the atomic bomb to stop the Nazis from developing nuclear weapons, but the result was the bomb dropped on Japan and countless casualties. The film coldly shows how science loses its purity and becomes a tool of the state through the process of Oppenheimer's choice combining with America's imperial ambitions ."
Real-life scientist behind the atomic bomb has a complicated legacy in America Oppenheimer: The true story behind Christopher Nolan’s biopic about ‘the father of the atomic bomb’ Skip to ...
Charles Oppenheimer and Rachel Bronson on what J. Robert Oppenheimer's warnings say about today's nuclear ... Christopher Nolan’s biopic of the father of the atomic bomb has been a cultural ...
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The film tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), [3] the theoretical physicist who led the effort to build the first atomic bomb, tested in July 1945 at Trinity site in New Mexico. It features interviews with several Manhattan Project scientists, as well as newly declassified archival footage. [4]
Over four weeks in 1954, the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) explored the background, actions, and associations of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American scientist who directed the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb.