“…J. Robert Oppenheimer, ‘father of the atomic bomb’, is the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the awesome fire of the sun for his country in time of war. Immediately after Hiroshima, he became the most famous scientist of his generation–one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, the embodiment of modern man confronting the consequences of scientific progress…
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”
“Oppenheimer” is the new biographical feature, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, based on the book “American Prometheus” by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, starring Cillian Murphy as the theoretical physicist among those credited for his role in the ‘Manhattan Project’, a World War II undertaking that developed the world’s first nuclear weapons, opening July 21, 2023: