The film Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan, known for the films Inception, Interstellar, and The Dark Knight, is a remake of the 2005 book American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. The plot is on J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist who developed the atomic bomb as part of the controversial Manhattan Project, and charts his life and career. Cillian Murphy plays Oppenheimer in Nolan's film.
What Was the Manhattan Project?
The Manhattan Project was a research initiative during World War II that was coordinated by the US, UK, and Canada. It ran from 1942 to 1946. It was intended for the development of the first nuclear weapons. Both J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory that created the bombs, and Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who is portrayed by Matt Damon in the film Oppenheimer, were in charge of the project.
The experiment was successful, and two different kinds of atomic bombs—a gun-type and an implosion-type—were created. The project's duties included gathering intelligence from the Germans, who were engaged in their own nuclear weapon programme, in addition to the production of nuclear weapons.
The first nuclear explosion occurred as a test in New Mexico in July 1945, and two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki a month later, killing between 129,000 and 226,000 civilians namely The Little Boy and the Fat Man.
Who Was J. Robert Oppenheimer?
“The Father of the Atomic Bomb,” Oppenheimer studied chemistry at Harvard and earned a PhD in physics before becoming a professor at UC Berkeley. There he stayed, pioneering scientific advancements alongside his students, until 1942 when he was recruited to work on the Manhattan Project.
'American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer'
Oppenheimer took it upon himself to stop the nuclear weapons race since he was the one who started it. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, Oppenheimer spent many years advocating for global nuclear power regulation and averting a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union.
Oppenheimer delves into all of this and more, as well as his private life and relationship with Emily Blunt's Kitty Puening. Along with Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh, Robert Downey Jr. plays Lewis Strauss, the chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission, in the movie.
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