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With concepts of physics in some of your films already. i'd say interstellar, about time and gravity. clearly, as far as oppenheimer goes, the atom bomb is the ultimate and most awful human expression of physics. did your interest in physics lead you to the man, or did the human story of the man come first for you? i mean, really, well, it's a bit of both. i knew the name oppenheimer, like a lot of people. i knew that he was strongly involved, very much associated with the atomic bomb, father of the atomic bomb. and i knew that something else there was more to the story, i put it that way. and...

That moment of the atom bomb first detonating on film? well, taking on oppenheimer�*s story, it's very clear that the trinity test has to be the showstopper. it's the the fulcrum around which the whole story turns. and one of the people i, i showed the script to first was andrew jackson, my visual effects coordinator. he... he's very good with computer graphics, but he's also very good with analog methods. and i said to him, i really don't want to use any computer graphics in this film because i think computer graphics, however versatile they are, and they can be used for all kinds of wonder...

The July 1947 explosion at the Westland Oil Co. killed five people, destroyed nine businesses and caused nearly a million dollars in damages.

Two and a half years before the Trinity Test initiated the atomic age, General Leslie Groves met in Wilmington with the then president of the DuPont Company, Walter Carpenter, Junior,

Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" is historically accurate in many ways, but it's still a work of fiction. Here's what's true and false in the movie.