THE life of American theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, the most respected leader of the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II, has been the subject of several biographies, but history hasn’t been kind to him. His story needs to be chronicled.
The epic biographical thriller, Oppenheimer, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, gives us a fatalistic view of nuclear weapons, and the trauma they entail. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2005 biography, American Prometheus,