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Viewers are divided over whether the film should have shown Japanese victims of the weapon created by physicist Robert Oppenheimer. Experts say it's complicated.

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The movie doesn't show away from the affects of a nuclear explosion, but it does show the distance that the gadget creators had to the gadget's victims. There is no mistaking the destructive power of a nuclear weapon. It just happens to be that the destruction isn't a direct response that the inventor deals with.

[–] Pokethat@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the movie did a pretty good job of showing that he wasn't the inventor of the atomic bomb. The moniker has always been "father" of the atomic bomb, since he was more of a supervisor and manager than a deep researcher at that point

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago

True. He was instrumental, but more in leading the effort of different researchers.