Nuclear frisson: On Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

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Sun, 24/03/2024 - 20:29
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Sun, 24/03/2024 - 20:29
The best scene in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer comes towards the end of the movie. The titular physicist is talking to Einstein, recalling a previous conversation in which they’d discussed the possibility that an atomic bomb would ignite the Earth’s atmosphere. ‘When I came to you with those calculations’, Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) reflects, ‘we thought we […]