The Importance of Morality in the War on the World

Edward Lawrence was sort of perfect as Edward Teller. Kenneth Browner should not do accents, that's just a rule. Matt Damon's character was not on the night going like, so what's this? That was made up. And I think rightly because how can you avoid that story? He really wasn't ambivalent and weirdly in his memoirs, he later just goes, we should never have bombed Hiroshima. The final few seconds of that film, that's very much what you're being told. It's an incredibly long time of just this white silence.

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