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Australian and British viewers of Oppenheimer will benefit from knowing about the role which Mark Oliphant played in the atomic project.

Oppenheimer is a brilliant historical thriller, but it fails to tell the full story - and one Australian’s crucial part in it.

Professor Gareth Williams on why Christopher Nolan's new blockbuster film Oppenheimer perpetuates a myth that the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in August 1945 were all-American inventions. Here he explains the British contribution to the story...

There are still no clear-cut answers to these questions, decades after the end of the war. There probably never will be. The issues that they raise in the nuclear debate remain too polarizing. The one certainty is that the Cold War rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union deeply shaded politics in those decades. There is no debate, however, that the A bomb spurred many technical innovations in energy use that would not have happened without the race to develop the bomb.

There are still no clear-cut answers to these questions, decades after the end of the war. There probably never will be. The issues that they raise in the nuclear debate remain too polarizing. The one certainty is that the Cold War rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union deeply shaded politics in those decades. There is no debate, however, that the A bomb spurred many technical innovations in energy use that would not have happened without the race to develop the bomb.

Article: Oppenheimer Raises Fresh Questions About the A Bomb - Two years before the formal entrance of the U.S. in World War II combat, then President Franklin Roosevelt was in stark terror at the potential power and danger of a nuclear weapon in Hitlers hands.

Article: Oppenheimer Raises Fresh Questions About the A Bomb - Two years before the formal entrance of the U.S. in World War II combat, then President Franklin Roosevelt was in stark terror at the potential power and danger of a nuclear weapon in Hitlers hands.

Work on the Manhattan Project was done at sites all across the U.S. Olga LaCharite worked as an executive secretary for the group at the Chrysler Corporation site in Detroit. To get the job she had to promise not to reveal any information about their work.

My 19th century ancestors owned and logged 1,100 acres of virgin redwood along the lower Russian River, eventually selling 200 acres to the Bohemian Club.

By 1942, Oppenheimer rose up to meet his destiny and became the leader of the effort to build an atomic bomb.