What you need to know:
Regarding the premiere of Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’, the Criterion Collection released a free documentary about the scientist who created the atomic bomb.
finally released oppenheimerChristopher Nolan’s latest film that reviews the life of the scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, specifically in the years that he led the Manhattan Project whose objective was to create the first nuclear bomb in history. HERE we leave our review of the film.
oppenheimer is one of the most anticipated films that not only marks the return of Nolan with the leading role of Cillian Murphyalso because it is a huge production that reveals important details of one of the most decisive moments in the history of humanity: To press or not to press a button could end everything known.
Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb
As we know, andhe Manhattan Project and Oppenheimer’s work was a “success.” He brought together the world’s best physicists, mathematicians, and chemists to create the first atomic bomb. And they did it. It was the one that was launched in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
oppenheimer de Nolan depicts several years of the physicist’s life. And as we mentioned, it emphasizes the years in which the research to create the massive weapon was developed. But it also shows us the years after, the way in which Oppenheimer refused to develop a hydrogen bomb and when the government turned against him for thisusing his attachment to communist ideals.
If they already nailed the story and really want to see oppenheimer, we have another good news for you in addition to the fact that Nolan’s tape is already in all theaters in the country. It turns out that Criterion Collection, released for free the incredible documentary The Day After Trinity.
The Day After Trinity, the documentary about Oppenheimer
Criterion Collection released, for free, the documentary The Day After Trinity by Jon Else from 1981, which shows many archival images and videos about the Manhattan Project, but also about the social life that developed around the investigation.
The Day After Trinity has a lot of interviews with some of the most important figures in the Project, as well as people close to Oppenheimer’s life such as his brother Frank, his friends Haakon Chevalier and Hans Betheand various scientists such as Robert Serber, Francis Fergusson, Robert Serber, Robert Wilson or Françoise Ulam. HERE we show you how scientists who appear in real life looked like in oppenheimer.
It also shows various interviews with some residents of regions near Los Álamos.the city that the US government built for scientists to live there long enough to build the bomb.
One of the most relevant parts of this documentary about Oppenheimer is the revelation of the consequences of the bombings on the Japanese population, and how this affected the life of Oppenheimer, who said that he had become a “destroyer of worlds”. We also see when he became an “enemy” of the government through refusing to support the construction of the hydrogen bomb by his colleague Edward Teller.
HERE we leave you the link so you can see the Oppenheimer documentary: The Day After Trinity.
