BBCNEWS The Arts Interviews June 4, 2024 00:40:00
About who oppenheimer would have been. you know, it was time of the height of membership in cnd, the protest agreement, greenham common, you know, these kind of things. so when i was 12 or 13, myself and my friends, we were convinced we would die in a nuclear holocaust. when i talk to one of my teenage sons about what i was writing when i started writing this script, he actually said to me straight out, it's like, "do people really worry about that anymore? "are people concerned about nuclear weapons in the way that would make that important and compelling?" and my response to him was, "well, ...