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The phenomenal lead in writer-director Christopher Nolan's epic also breaks down one particular scene that has stuck with him.

In honor of Oppenheimer, a roundup of stories about the dawn of the Atomic Age

On July 16, 1945, the Atomic Age began. And this weekend, a film detailing it, “Oppenheimer,” opens at the Rose. I’ve taken an interest in the Manhattan Project for years. I …

Activates these constellations of existential dialogue. i mean, we are still living in the atomic age, for better or worse. >> it's quite a coincidence, this biography from 2006, walter isaacson wrote the einstein biography in 2007. and of course, the two connect throughout the movie. but the thing about walter's biography of einstein that fascinated me so much as he said, you know, einstein wasn't the greatest mathematician, he wasn't the greatest guy in the lab, but he visualized things. like that theory of relativity, he visualized lightning striking the train at the same time. and it wasn'...

There is nothing about human history which suggests, nothing about the history of the west which suggests that the atomic bomb would be the place where we stop. that's why they went to the hydrogen bomb. he realized it immediately. >> immediately. and jen, watching this movie, there is so many things, extraordinarily compelling movie but also disturbing. one of the things i kept thinking about as we sat there was a i technology. >> yeah. >> the fact that when the atomic age came about, the government was there, they protected americans and the world from the worst of all of this moving forward...