From the same news outlet that Oppenheimer himself subscribed to.
Viewers will note the attention to detail during the film's climax as Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) announces, "It's bomb time".
During the opening sequence Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) comically brushes his teeth in the mirror while the radio plays "You dropped a bomb on me" by the gap band, he then goes on to make breakfast via a rube goldberg style machine to highlight his genius.
ppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) turns toward his assistant and, in the glow of the bomb, sarcastically says "Well that just happened."
oment of dramatic tension, Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) turns to President Truman (Gary Oldman) and says "Japanese people are really startin' to pISS ME OFF AFTER ALL THIS PEARL HARBOUR CRAP"
Edward Teller post-credits scene
Thermonuclear ICBM exploded universe
the movie about the Chinese nuclear physics godfather is one of the best Beijing productions I have watched. American racism shown plain clear and direct in that film. such a super badass who chose his people over sin
He didn't want the bomb dropped on civilians, only on military targets from what I remember of grade 10 history. Though he was on the targeting team, so he would've known that it would be dropped on civilians.
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/6.pdf minutes of the meeting in his office where the targets were agreed
It's all well and good to say "oh I didn't want the civilians bombed" after the fact, but he clearly wasn't concerned when he was agreeing to the targets and also discussing the importance of any "military" targets (quotation marks in original) being located in a larger [read: civilian] area.
It's also entirely understandable for him to make that decision when the US bombing of Japan was so intense that the targets had to be reserved (i.e. spared from conventional bombing) for atomic bombing.
Thanks for the link - ugly reading.
That particular paragraph was certainly a carefully crafted bit of weasel wording, I agree the only interpretation that makes real sense is (to repeat what you just said) that they don't wish to "lose" the weapon in the sense of wasting its kill zone so that a small military target (which means basically any military target given the blast radius) needs a larger civilian target to die with it.
The concern clearly wasn't a dud bomb (and they believed one of the bombs would probably detonate anyway from groundwater) because those considerations aren't even mentioned and they move swiftly on.
Very practical and cool.
Came across an interesting article (with some interesting speculation) about why Kyoto was taken off the list.
I don't think he did that, though he is certainly partly to blame for it happening.
Is there an excerpt you are referring to? It’s interesting but there is a lot to read there
I read document 12 and it says that Dr Conat suggested the target and made said recommendation to the Secretary, and that there was a "general agreement... That we could not concentrate on a civilian area; but that we should seek to make a profound psychological impression on as many of the inhabitants as possible ".
So it was Dr Conant that advocated directly for that specific target, not Dr Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer however advocated for the biggest possible spectacle, and even multiple simultaneous nuclear bombings, according to document 12. Which is probably worse.
Gonna go see it this weekend. If I don’t survive the blast, you all can have my keyboard, it’s never lost an argument
So Nolan made a film about Red Scare cancel culture it seems. Maybe Nolan-heads will become anti-Red-Scare contrarians now?
Apparently people in Phillipines and Indonesia clapped after watching oppenheimer. Then again a lot of them believe america liberated asia by nuking japan, nevermind how much suffering came from american backed faacists such as marcos and suharto
Me and my wife are going to go see Barbie very soon and everything I've heard about it makes me hype.
Masterful exploration of history, anti-communism, and the Atomic Age’s legacy
Sounds like Nolan shit, all right.
BUT IT HAS BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM SO ITS ACTUALLY DEEP AND THOUGHTFUL NONPOLITICALLY 
I’m so fucking tired of films where it’s just dipshit commits genocide but he feels sad so he’s the real victim, and this makes it deep and contemplative somehow.
To make a deep film you need to actually explore the dynamics instead of going “is genocide good or bad? no one really knows
” nuancebro shitThe Adults In The Room Made Hard Decisions And Got Shit Done And Are Maybe Sad Moral Grayness Is Very Deep And Unknowably Wise
Im ready for Oppenheimer to become the 'literally me' character of online leftists with poor media literacy like Patrick Bateman is for sigma males
I mean I dont think it will happen but I think it would be funny
