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Color photograph of the Trinity test, 15 July 1945; J. Robert Oppenheimer (in light colored hat with foot on tower rubble), General Leslie Groves (large man in military dress to Oppenheimer's left), and others at the ground zero site of the Trinity test after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, some time after the actual test.
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This three-hour film, which tells the story of the atomic bomb through the eyes of theoretical physicist and Manhattan Project director Robert Oppenheimer, is a visually captivating and complex tale, with sufficient dramatic tempo to hold the audience’s attention over a long period.
The filmic success of Oppenheimer sits unhappily alongside its cinematic impact, however. It is, I believe, a flawed cultural creation.
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