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Christopher Nolan's portrait of the father of the nuclear bomb is a triumph, like witnessing history itself being split open

Kai Bird, co-author of American Prometheus, weighs in on the real facts and complex history behind the summer blockbuster from Christopher Nolan.

Christopher Nolans biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer is an engrossing thriller exploring how the nuclear test gave way to Cold War fears.

Kai Bird, co-author of 'American Prometheus,' weighs in on the real facts and complex history behind the summer blockbuster from Christopher Nolan.

Decades before Christopher Nolan set his sights on a movie about J. Robert Oppenheimer, a science-obsessed BBC executive ventured to America in 1979 to make a $1.5 million TV show about the father of the atom bomb. Peter Goodchild began his career at the BBC in radio drama, but eventually migrated to the storied “Horizon” […]

A deeper look into the last days of J. Robert Oppenheimer - what you won't see in the film by Christopher Nolan.

Virtually stripping german universities of their best minds. wellerstein: all of the turmoil in europe had forced out a huge number of really top-grade physicists. enrico fermi. hans bethe. edward teller, who famously would go on to develop the hydrogen bomb. one can sort of go down the lists and find more and more and more of these amazing people. oppenheimer was famously known for his intellectual sex appeal. and he could go around the country and sort of flash his brain to people, and, you kn...

Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' is a cinematic encounter with history that's impossible to shake off. It is going to haunt me for months.

East Bay Times Letters to the Editor for July 21, 2023

The blockbuster biopic delves into the mind of the 'father of the atom bomb,' a lonely man tortured by his achievements, at once surrounded by and isolated from his own community