LAST year, the film Oppenheimer swept the American box office and helped reignite public discourse about nuclear weapons and the ever-present threat of their use.
It’s perhaps inevitable that the movie, which dramatises the United States’ development of the atomic bomb, still provides only a partial understanding of the complex reality of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer’s life and legacy. With the movie dominating the awards season, the audience deserves to know about two crucial stories that the movie left out.
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