Global governance vital in scientific revolutions

A photograph of the July 16, 1945, first atomic bomb test is displayed along a fence at Ground Zero at Trinity Site, White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. — AFP

J. ROBERT Oppenheimer was the first chair of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ board of sponsors, a group composed of the world’s leading scientists based at the University of Chicago. Because I serve as the bulletin’s president, I am fielding a lot of questions lately about why I think Christopher Nolan’s eponymous film about Oppenheimer is resonating so deeply with the public.

The all-star cast, feted director, and script – based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus – all forecast a box-office hit, of course.