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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]
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.
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 ...
The new blockbuster film "Oppenheimer," which tells the story of how physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer became “the father of the atomic bomb,” has given new energy to a debate that has raged for ...
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 ...
Considered the father of the atomic bomb, Oppenheimer became a celebrity, icon, and a scientist-statesman who was now influential in American politics. Oppenheimer hoped using the bombs would prevent a nuclear arms race with Russia. He urged for a transparent international regulation of atomic weapons and energy but soon supported a more ...
The blockbuster film “Oppenheimer,” which revolves around physicist Robert Oppenheimer and his development of the atomic bomb, has prompted discussion over the way the movie did not directly ...