Born on April 22, 1904, in New York, J. Robert Oppenheimer is widely considered the father of the atomic bomb.
When the highly anticipated movie “Oppenheimer” finally lands in theaters Friday, it will be one of the first blockbuster biopics to open since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic. Director Christopher Nolan’s latest creation concerns an earlier existential threat, telling the story of the atomic bomb through the lens of its creator, J. Robert Oppenheimer – played by “Peaky Blinders” star Cillian Murphy.
” What was the Manhattan Project? The rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany led physicists like Albert Einstein, Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner to warn the US government of the danger posed to humanity if the Nazis managed to make a nuclear bomb first. In response, the US government assembled a crack team of atomic physicists – headed by Oppenheimer, who had gained an international reputation for his research into subatomic particles.
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