Commentary: ‘Oppenheimer’ is here. Is Hollywood still afraid of the truth about the atomic bomb?
by Greg Mitchell, Los Angeles Times
Jul 21, 2023
3 minutes
In 1945, Hollywood set in motion its first big-budget movie drama about the making and use of the atomic bomb. Almost immediately a competing project emerged (with a screenplay by Ayn Rand, no less). Yet for over seven decades, only two other major movie dramas about this epochal event emerged from a studio. Now that is changing with Friday’s arrival of Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated “Oppenheimer,” focusing on the famed lead scientist at Los Alamos who is sometimes called “the Father of the Atomic Bomb.”
In the same period, Hollywood has produced far
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