Hiroshima Library News Today

After a surge of attention just after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, newsreel footage lay dormant.

For historians, anti-nuclear advocates, Japanese Americans and others, Christopher Nolan's film encourages viewers to flinch from the atrocity at its center.

'Oppenheimer' viewers are divided on whether the film should have shown Japanese victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki of the weapon created by physicist Robert Oppenheimer.