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Oppenheimer’s Second Coming
Japanese were interested when Oppenheimer visited Japan as an honored guest in 1960. Will they be also interested in the Nolan film released today in Japan?
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Gregory Kulacki
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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March 28, 2024
How Do We Know the Motorman Is Not Insane?
Oppenheimer and the demon heart of power.
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James Robins
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The Dreadnought
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December 20, 2023
Fact, Fiction, and the Father of the Bomb
On Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”
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Alex Wellerstein
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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August 30, 2023
‘Oppenheimer’ Doesn’t Show us Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That's an Act of Rigor, Not Erasure
The movie has no interest in reducing the atomic bombings to a trivializing, exploitative spectacle, despite what some would want.
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Justin Chang
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Los Angeles Times
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August 11, 2023
Nolan’s Oppenheimer Treats New Mexico as a Blank Canvas
There is no acknowledgement in the film of the existence of downwinders from the test, in New Mexico or elsewhere.
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Kelsey D. Atherton
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Source New Mexico
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July 28, 2023
‘It’s Really First-Class Work’
Watching 'Oppenheimer' with the author of a definitive account of the Manhattan Project.
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Richard Rhodes
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Alec Nevala-Lee
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The Atlantic
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July 27, 2023
The Real History Behind Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer'
The "father of the atomic bomb" has long been misunderstood. Will the new film finally get J. Robert Oppenheimer right?
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Andy Kifer
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Smithsonian
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July 18, 2023
Oppenheimer, Nullified and Vindicated
The inventor of the atomic bomb, the subject of Christopher Nolan’s new film, was the chief celebrity victim of the national trauma known as McCarthyism.
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Kai Bird
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The New Yorker
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July 7, 2023
Slave to the Bomb
We don’t need to imagine a world ravaged by nuclear war – we’re already living in it.
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Erik Baker
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The Saturday Evening Post
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March 28, 2024
Blood on Our Hands
What did Truman and Oppenheimer actually say in that room?
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Bill Black
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Contingent
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December 7, 2023
Beyond Tortured Genius: Science and Conscience in Two Rediscovered Oppenheimer Films
"The Day After Trinity" and "The Strangest Dream" evacuate the mythical tropes of the tortured genius biopic that Hollywood loves to rehearse.
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Lauren Carroll Harris
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Literary Hub
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August 31, 2023
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Reviewing the Oppenheimer Reviews
Christopher Nolan's blockbuster has generated a torrent of historical commentary about the birth of nuclear weapons. Is there something missing from the conversation?
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Kathryn Ostrofsky
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August 25, 2023
The Dark History ‘Oppenheimer’ Didn't Show
Coming from the Congo, I knew where an essential ingredient for atomic bombs was mined, even if everyone else seemed to ignore it.
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Ngofeen Mputubwele
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Wired
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August 21, 2023
What “Oppenheimer” Misses About The Decision to Drop the Bomb
The Truman administration launched a PR campaign to inflate casualty numbers to justify the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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John R. Emery
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Anna Pluff
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Inkstick
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August 10, 2023
‘1917’ and the Trouble With War Movies
"Every film about war ends up being pro-war," Francois Truffaut once said.
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Adam Nayman
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The Ringer
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January 29, 2020
The Decade Comic Book Nerds Became Our Cultural Overlords
Why do they have to be such sore winners?
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Alex Pappademas
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Medium
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December 10, 2019
Where Does the War on History End?
Those who seek to hide the achievements of our greatest men and women are making a monumental mistake.
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Tony Parsons
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British GQ
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June 21, 2018