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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.