Not only is there Nolan’s great film, there is also a documentary on Sky (streaming and now), almost every night a montage of statements and interviews by Christopher Cassel, who, to tell an extraordinary and contradictory life, people got the talking blue eyes of the scientist, the scholars, the politicians, his nephew, Nolan himself and two survivors of the 210,000 corpses of the Hiroshima mushroom. It narrates the making of the atomic bomb, the Manhattan Project in the New Mexico desert at Los Alamos (work completed, July 25, 1945) and the continuation with the H-bomb: it appears to be a review of Kubrick’s masterpiece Doctor Strangelove . The cinema dealt with Oppenheimer in films and series (the first actor was Hume Cronyn, then Sam Waterston), and in the Piccolo Teatro a group coordinated by Strehler staged Kipphardt’s “64 On the JR Oppenheimer case”. In the film “Sky” a tormented man appears, who perhaps did not apologize, but rather carried the historical complex of the unconscious, which has already been tested many times, on his shoulders. Here is the unhappy, bullied youth, the honors of physics, but also the FBI, which pursues him as a suspect of communist acquaintances (his mistress, his brother), up to the McCarthy trial, which deducts his grades and transfers the professor. to teach Princetown in the endgame.
Many mixed personalities implode: great scholar, brilliant scientist, middle-class husband, great depressions and the shadow of the Galilee dispute, the relationship between science and politics that sends him to no man’s land. The exciting and highly topical part is the decision to drop the bomb: the basic idea was to defeat Hitler, the real enemy, in time. A role that Russia will take on when Truman speaks out to Stalin and Churchill in Potsdam after August 6, 1945. But the meeting between the President and Oppenheimer was a disaster, Truman said, and that crybaby scientist should be taken away from him. And it was the end.
Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb, Sky documentaries 11.45 a.m