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Here's What 'Oppenheimer' Gets Right--And Wrong--About Nuclear History

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Oppenheimer's Worldview

There are a lot of different ways you can try to make a World War II atomic bomb movie or an Oppenheimer movie. He's really trying to make this also about the world we live in and the dark views of what's coming next. The film kind of does Stimson dirty, it makes him look like a sort of foolish politician. And I sort of wish they had been able to do a little bit more with that.

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