The Hidden History of the Manhattan Project

I think the truth of the matter doesn't lend itself to a more moralizing approach. So it's not as if the choices that Oppenheimer made changed history. He could have quit as soon as they were talking about using it on Japan, I'm not sure if there was any point at which he could have walked off. The idea that that was something that the film should have jujed up or foregrounded would not really have been accurate. But what I do think was great was people going, well, okay, here's my opportunity to write an article about the women of the Manhattan Project"

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